BBC Science Focus Magazine

NATURE'S WEIRDEST CREATURES…

ow do you like your eggs? If the answer is, ‘fried, salty, and weirdly pulsing with life’ then read on. With its yellow, bears an uncanny resemblance to the popular breakfast item. Beneath this egg-like bell is a frilly, ruffled ‘underskirt’ of trailing appendages. Some are tipped with purple blobs that house zooxanthellae, the same symbiotic algae that give certain corals their characteristic hue. The symbiotic organisms receive a place to live, and in return, generate energy for their hosts via photosynthesis.

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