Whoa! A big black coral with a bunch of squat lobsters.
So I think this could be known as what is a Leoipathes.
So a black coral with yellow tissue.
So underneath, you have that black proteinous skeleton, but you have that soft, orange tissue on the outside.
And it definitely seems to be the habitat of choice for those squat lobsters and a bunch of those flytrap anemones.
So you can see in the background, those particles moving through the water, just how quickly that current is rushing.
The squat lobsters are holding on tight. Yes, they are.
We've mentioned that some of these black corals that we've seen can be thousands of years old.
Over 4,000 years old. Wow. For one individual.
So we often talk about these coral mounds and how old the mound itself can be,
but when you look at those black corals, that one coral has been growing and alive for that long.
That's just amazing. It's truly...yeah, it's hard, I think, for us to conceptualize sometimes how old these animals can be.