SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Dead man's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) on a rocky reef with view of the sky, Shetland, Scotland, UK, August.

Alex Mustard / Diver exploring the wreck of HMS Scylla, which is colonized by Dead man's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum). Whitsands Bay, Cornwall, England. UK, July.

Pal Hermansen / Dead, polluted Larch (Larix) forest, with power station behind, Norilsk, Russia.

Linda Pitkin / 2020VISION / Dead man's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum), growing on rock faces below the kelp, St Abbs (St Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve), Berwickshire, Scotland, UK, October 2011. Did you know? Soft co...

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / A gully lined with the soft coral Dead man's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) growing beneath a summer canopy of kelp, Rosehearty, Moray Firth, Scotland, UK, June

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / A tiny amphipod (Iphimedia obesa) living on Dead man's fingers soft coral (Alcyonium digitatum) Loch Carron, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, UK, April.

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Common / Red sunstar (Crossaster papposus) amongst Dead man's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum) on a rocky reef, beneath kelp. Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, June.

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Long legged spider crab (Macropodia rostrata) on Dead man's fingers (Alcyonium digitatum). Loch Carron, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, UK, April

Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Skeleton shrimp (Caprella linearis) living within the polyps of Dead man's fingers soft coral. Bard Cave, Bressay, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, June

Juergen Freund / Men dancing in a Tatanua Masks, an image of the soul of the deceased. When a person dies, by Malagan tradition people dance in the shallow waters to try to drive evil spirits or taboos of the dead awa...

Tim Laman / Ornithologist Brett Benz prepares a Huon Macgregor's Gardener Bowerbird (Amblyornis macgregoriae) museum specimen. At the Araurong field camp in the Sarawaget Range Indonesia, Dec 2006

Jeff Rotman / Sequence 2/3 Diver with anti-shark POD examininf Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) caught in anti-shark net off Durban Beach, Natal, South Africa. Model released.