While they may look like anemones, believe it or not, these are holothurians! Several of our science team had never seen this type of sea cucumber, so it was an interesting discovery to find several boulders covered in them.
Holothurians
Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the Central Pacific Basin. Download larger version (jpg, 1.3 MB).

While they may look like anemones, believe it or not, these are holothurians! Several of our science team had never seen this type of sea cucumber, so it was an interesting discovery to find several boulders covered in them.

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