Oh wait, three years after Twitter. The baby corals miss their baby coral frens!

Good question! I will put this on my increasingly weird to-do list!

Now I'm wondering what exactly is "safe poultry temp" for a slimy venomous animal on the bottom of the sea that evolved hundreds of millions of years before poultry or cooking 🤷

On the left: Baby Boulder Brain Coral C. natans. On the right: Baby Grooved Brain Coral D. labyrinthiformis. Baby age: 2 or 3 years. Video speed: 100x. Underdog: They crushed it.

Thank you! Excited to learn more about your work. They are all very good slimy creatures.

It’s tiny pieces of actual Thanksgiving turkey! Humans helped eat the rest.

Unforced error of a whole order of magnitude! Baby size is 1 cm. Still tiny.

Oh gah I forgot my alt text. A round, orange coral polyp, 1 cm wide, surrounded by pink encrusting algae. A piece of Thanksgiving turkey falls onto the coral. The coral uses 6 of its 42 tentacles to smash the turkey into its mouth and then closes its lips. Being a plankton looks terrifying.

We'll be bringing you this nonsense all week. If you want.

Still wondering about this

Some coral species stay a humble meatball size! But the biggest reef builders can easily grow to be 3 meters wide like these corals on the north shore of Curacao. (I'm the scale bar.) And a coral colony was just documented in American Samoa that's over 30 m wide!

Aren’t they fabulous?? And they grow up to be the size of cars!?

Omg this took me out. Is it a riddle? A metaphor? No. Hi Rick!!