Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / Polar shrimp (Lebbeus polaris) on live Lophelia (Lophelia pertusa) from Trondheimfjord, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway. Controlled conditions. Photo taken in cooperation with GEOMAR coldwater coral res...

Florian Graner / Mixed cold water corals, Trondheimsfjord, Norway {Lophelia pertusa} {Paragorgia arborea} {Paramurica placata}

Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / Lophelia (Lophelia pertusa) the most widespread reef-framework-forming cold-water coral which can form massive deep-sea coral reefs, from Trondheimfjord, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway. Controlled cond...

Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / Lophelia (Lophelia pertusa) the most widespread reef-framework forming cold-water coral which can form massive deep-sea coral reefs, from Trondheimfjord, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway. Controlled cond...

Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / Lophelia (Lophelia pertusa) the most widespread reef-framework-forming cold-water coral which can form massive deep-sea coral reefs, from Trondheimfjord, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway. Controlled condi...

Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / Bubblegum coral (Paragorgia arborea) with basket star (Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae) with a live coral (Lophelia pertusa), reef in Trondheimfjord, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway . Photo taken in coopera...

Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / Bubblegum coral (Paragorgia arborea) with basket star (Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae) on the live Lophelia pertusa reef in Trondheimfjord, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway . Photo taken in cooperation wit...

Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / Northern stone crab (Lithodes maja) on coral reef (Lophelia pertusa) in Trondheimfjord, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway. Photo taken in cooperation with GEOMAR coldwater coral research project

Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / Submersible JAGO surfacing with deepsea coral samples from Sula Reef off the coast of Norway. Chief Scientist Dr. Armi (left) from GEOMAR Kiel and pilot Jürgen Schuaer (right) September 2011, editori...

Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / Coral (Lophelia pertusa) from reef in Trondheimfjord, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway. Controlled conditions,. Photo taken in cooperation with GEOMAR coldwater coral research project

Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / Coral (Lophelia pertusa) from reef in Trondheimfjord, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway. Photo taken in cooperation with GEOMAR coldwater coral research project

Solvin Zankl / GEOMAR / View of Coral Reef (Lophelia pertusa) with prominent gorgonian coral colonies (Paragorgia arborea) taken from German research submersible JAGO, Trondheimfjord, Norway, Atlantic Ocean, Norway . Photo...

Solvin Zankl / Amphipod (Epimeria cornigera) on live Lophelia coral (Lophelia pertusa). Trondheimfjord, North Atlantic Ocean, Norway.

Solvin Zankl / Squat Lobster (Munidopsis serricornis) on a cold water deepsea coral (Lophelia pertusa) Trondheimsfjord, North Atlantic Ocean.

Solvin Zankl / Polychaete worm (Eunice norvegica) living in a cold water coral (Lophelia pertusa), Trondheimsfjord, North Atlantic Ocean.

Wild Wonders of Europe / Lundgren / Edible crab (Cancer pagurus) climbing on a deep water Coral (Lophelia pertusa) near Fan coral (Paramuricea placomus) Trondheimsfjorden, Norway, February 2009

Florian Graner / Mixed cold water corals (Lophelia pertusa), Norway

Florian Graner / Mixed cold water corals (Lophelia pertusa), Norway

Florian Graner / Cold water coral (Lophelia pertusa), Norway

Florian Graner / Mixed cold water corals (Lophelia pertusa), Norway

Florian Graner / Cold water coral (Lophelia pertusa), Norway

Florian Graner / Cold water corals (Lophelia perfusa) and (Paragorgia arborea) Norway

Florian Graner / Cold water coral reef (Lophelia perfusa) Trondheimsfjord, Norway

David Shale / Deepsea Solitary coral (Lophelia pertusa) , deep sea Atlantic ocean