Diversity in the deep sea can be amazing. In just this image, there is a glass sponge with zooanthids, octocorals, hydroids, sponges, a crinoid, brittle stars, and all the cryptofauna that we can’t see living in the rubble!
Glass Sponge
Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Exploration of the Gulf of Mexico 2014. Download larger version (jpg, 1.4 MB).

Diversity in the deep sea can be amazing. In just this image, there is a glass sponge with zooanthids, octocorals, hydroids, sponges, a crinoid, brittle stars, and all the cryptofauna that we can’t see living in the rubble!

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