Deepwater Killed Deep-Sea Corals

A team of biologists found a graveyard of deep-sea gorgonian corals, 11 kilometers south-west of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.These corals, which used to be quite colorful before, are now brown and have layers of peeling tissue, and it is known that when coral get str... [ read more >> ]

A single colony of coral with dying and dead sections (on left), apparently living tissue (top right) and bare skeleton with very sickly looking brittle star on the base.

Image comment: A single colony of coral with dying and dead sections (on left), apparently living tissue (top right) and bare skeleton with very sickly looking brittle star on the base.
Image credits: Image courtesy of Lophelia II 2010 Expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEMRE

A single colony of coral with dying and dead sections (on left), apparently living tissue (top right) and bare skeleton with very sickly looking brittle star on the base.
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