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Remember those plants on Pandora that vanish into the ground when touched? Turns out there's a kind of coral that does the same thing. Now if only we could find the Tree of Souls.
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If we found the tree of souls, I'm sure it wouldn't take long for some fundamentalist group to chop it down as a danger to their beliefs.
Posted by: Will | Jan 28, 2010 2:34:26 PM
I think that that is a kind of tube worm, not coral.
Posted by: Dan44444 | Jan 28, 2010 3:02:05 PM
I think it might actually be a kind of seas cucumber - they often use a crown of feathery oral appendages to filter feed.
Posted by: kipp | Jan 28, 2010 3:22:40 PM
Really cool, but the Avatar plants were modeled more after Christmas Tree Worms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirobranchus_giganteus
They're really cool and fun to tease.
Posted by: Scott | Jan 28, 2010 4:43:23 PM
It's an animal, not a plant.
Posted by: arturo | Jan 28, 2010 8:11:20 PM
Most scuba divers recognized the 'feather-duster' tube worm immediately. They actually look a little more like the 'christmas tree' variety. They are real fun to play with underwater only much, MUCH smaller!
Posted by: Brad | Jan 29, 2010 3:23:47 AM