It looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, but this glowing mass is actually coral under fluorescent lighting conditions.
Coral fluorescence, produced by special fluorescent proteins, is a relatively poorly understood phenomenon, but researchers think it could help protect the coral from damaging sunlight, or other forms of stress
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