All there is to know about a coral reef

Yu.Ya. Latypov

A coral reef… The words sound like the beat of waves on the beach, like a salty wind rumbling the tops of palm trees on a far-away fairy island. It is not without reason that reefs are a magnet for scuba divers and nature enthusiasts: this complicated ecosystem is unique in its diversity and abundance of marine organisms of all kinds. Surprisingly, the basis for this exuberance of life is built up by tiny, ingeniously made animals, which, similarly to ordinary plants, spend virtually all their life without motion, attached to a substrate