Soft corals more closely related to shrimps than hard corals!

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  1. Leonard

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    i read that last nite !!!
     
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    That is wild
     
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    [SCROLL]the fact that i actually read sumthing?[/SCROLL]
     
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    Yep. I definitely didn't see this coming. I'm not surprised soft corals didn't evolve from the same family tree as hard corals (they are actually quite different if you think about it), but their relation to arthropods is wild.
     
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    LOL, that too::);D
     
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    You are right on the thought process and the association with arthropods is very wild. Never would have thought that.
     
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    Interesting.
     
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    So they are a fancy evolved copepod? I would never have guessed that. lol
     
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