These worms build reefs
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15/01/2001
A coral reef is a large construction project, and while most of the work of reef building is done by the corals themselves (with some help from algae), researchers from the European Oceanological Observatory and an Australian science film company have discovered that a certain marine worm may function as a foundation subcontractor, moving small colonies of coral around and sticking them to rocks. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made by accident.