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Coral Reefs - Seaworld
Explore the wild world of animals. Discover opportunities to care and conserve. Connect through our camps, courses, and careers at SeaWorld and Busch Gardens.
https://seaworld.org/animal-info/animal-infobooks/coral-and-coral-reefs/reef-ecosystem
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Coral Reef - Defenders of Wildlife
Learn about the size, diet, population, range, behavior and other fascinating facts about coral reefs.
http://www.defenders.org/coral-reef/basic-facts
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Facts About the Great Barrier Reef - GBRMPA
Learn facts about the great barrier reef and the coral which made it from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/about-the-reef/facts-about-the-great-barrier-reef
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Coral Reef: Animal - Marine Science
The polyp is the basic body form of a coral animal. It is essentially a round animal with a mouth in the middle and a ring of tentacles around the mouth. The tentacles possess stinging cells (called nematocysts) and can be used to sting, paralyze, and catch prey.
http://www.marinebio.net/marinescience/04benthon/crani.htm
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Coral (Anthozoa) - Animals - A-Z Animals
Basic facts and taxonomy of coral from A-Z Animals
http://a-z-animals.com/animals/coral/
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Coral Reefs and Climate Change - What is a Coral
An explanation of what coral is, where it lives and how it builds reefs
http://www.teachoceanscience.net/teaching_resources/education_modules/coral_reefs_and_climate_change/what_is_a_coral
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Are Corals Animals or Plants? - NOAA
Coral, a sessile animal, relies on its relationship with plant--like algae to build the largest structures of biological origin on Earth
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/coral.html
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Corals and Coral Reefs - Smithsonian Ocean Portal
Coral reefs contain colorful and amazing animals, but are threatened by human activities. Images, videos, and facts from around the world.
http://ocean.si.edu/corals-and-coral-reefs
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Corals - National Geographic
Learn all you wanted to know about corals with pictures, videos, photos, facts, and news from National Geographic.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/coral
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Coral - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Corals are marine invertebrates in the class Anthozoa of phylum Cnidaria. They typically live in compact colonies of many identical individual polyps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral
