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A close up of one of the impacted corals and an attached brittle star. A smallamount of apparently living tissue on some branches is orange. Most of theskeleton is bare or covered by brown flocculent material. Image taken shortlyafter Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Image credit: Lophelia II 2010 Expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEMRE; NOAA News 110410)