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Octocoral

Photo: NOAA Ocean Exploration, Voyage to the Ridge 2022
Photo: NOAA Ocean Exploration, Voyage to the Ridge 2022

Octocorals like this one come in all sorts of different bright colors and shapes. They are non reef-building, or soft, corals. They might not help build the hard undersea scaffolding that most people associate with coral, but they are beautiful.