Honorable Mention: Sun Coral

Photo by Anton Oleinik, Ph.D., associate professor, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

Invertebrate marine biodiversity of the western Atlantic. These slow-growing corals do not contribute to the growth of coral reefs and they do not live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae, which allow them to grow in complete darkness. Picture was taken at night on the wreck of the German steamship Antilla off the coast of Aruba.