It’s not a mountain landscape viewed from above. It’s actually Pavona varians, or “corrugated coral,” photographed under a microscope! This hard-skeleton coral sends tiny white filaments out to snare and digest prey. This reef-building coral species was collected from Panama’s Liquid Jungle Lab during a #WHOI tropical marine biology course.
Photo by Liz Drenkard © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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