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Frilled anemones (Metridium senile) share a boulder with numerous other encrusting animals. The deep boulder reefs of northern waters can be just as colorful as tropical coral reefs, they just get a lot less light to see them by. (photo: Dann Blackwood and Page Valentine, USGS)

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