One of the impacted corals with an attached brittle starfish and an anemone in a typical place on the coral. Living tissue, including the coral polyps, can be seen here as olive colored with bare patches revealing skeleton and attached brown flocculent material.
 Starfish and Anemone
Image courtesy of Lophelia II 2010, NOAA OER and BOEMRE. Download image (jpg, 101 KB).

One of the impacted corals with an attached brittle starfish and an anemone in a typical place on the coral. Living tissue, including the coral polyps, can be seen here as olive colored with bare patches revealing skeleton and attached brown flocculent material.