climate change series: sea fans adapt

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In times of climate change, sea fans have adapted to terrestrial life, attaching themselves to growing on rocky outcrops reaching into the air. The sea fans have formed colonies where the air is thick with insects. The sea fans are a colonial coral with several main branches and a highly intricate latticework linking smaller branches. The soft polyps on the skeleton, which is composed of calcite and gorgonin, are brilliantly red, with older polyps fading into pink. The fans are orientated at right angles to the wind current; each sea fan grows as a single, flat, plane layer like nets directly facing wind currents, and letting air travel through the openings in the network while trapping insects and other particles that fly against the polyps. The sticky polyps on the sea fans slowly digest the food particles. The ground around the sea fans is littered with tiny particles, the residues of the digested insects’ exoskeletons. The sea fans have adapted to life on land and are invading drier ground as a new destructive, invasive species. The style is a biological illustration with scientific precision, drawn as line art in bold colors.

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Sea fans have become terrestrial, living on rocky outcrops and feeding on insects and other particles that become entangled in their polyp nets.

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