Deep Sea Valentines

Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010

It's the perfect Valentine's gift: a beautiful bouquet of red blobs!

Just don't get too close...

Image: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, INDEX-SATAL 2010

Or you'll see the spiny, skeletal arms of the attendant brittle stars. Also, it's a coral, which means it's covered in stingers.

Gosh. I sure hope it isn't symbolic or anything.