Bamboo coral can live to be more than 200 years old. Note the faint red laser dots on this image, located at the "four o'clock" and "ten o'clock" positions. The dots give us a measurement scale (29 cm) for everything we collect. Image courtesy of NOAA/MBARI 2006.
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