coral-reef-building

Updated: May 22, 2025

So we see the coral-reef-building polyps toiling with but little rest, almost incessantly labouring to raise architectural devices of infinite design, and other creatures as industriously tearing them down to form the solid foundation of continents. Another species of ECHINUS eludes its enemies by the adoption of a cumbersome and forbidding mask.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber