6 Stunning Plants and Sea Creatures on the Ocean Floor - Page 4 of 8

Sun Coral

Despite the name, sun coral are a species of coral that don’t require much sunlight. They are deep-sea dwellers that make their homes in caves and other dark spaces. They get the energy they need (and their yellow to bright-orange color) by feeding on zooplankton. They’re also the only stony coral that set up permanent digs in the Caribbean after invading the ocean in the ballasts of ships coming from the Indo-Pacific, this coral’s native ocean.