Inaki Relanzon / Romanesque Church of Mare de Deu de la Pertusa, Serra del Montsec, Pyrenees, Catalonia, Spain, February 2013.

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 / Polychaete worm (Eunice norvegica) calcifies over its parchment tubes of Lopheia pertusa adding strength to the coral skeleton and providing protection to the worm, from Trondheimfjord, North Atlant...

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...