orange sea pens

or Ptilosarcus gurneyi are soft corals and are the only ones shaped like quill pens.

-o0o-

may i beg you to play the tag challenge. it's real easy, you see, and if you're in a rut, it just might wake up that dormant creativity in you. here's the link: https://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/32855/let-s-play-tag-tag-challenge-159-that-is

[Wyomingsister]

What fascinating things!! I've never seen anything like that before! Beautiful! Aptly named and a great picture!

[Dixie Goode]

We have White Sea pens here. They inspired a thing in my book that looks like a liquid or solid depending on how fast they vibrate but is really a sentient community. The Sea Pen looks like a plant but is really a community of members with very specialized jobs.

[☠northy]

Those things are soooo cool!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Wow- they really do look like quill pens!

[Dawn]

Lovely

[Marnie]

My word they do look like quill pens. Very interesting stuff.

[Shanne]

so cool - amazing creatures - and lovely orange

[Diana]

Stunning capture of these wonderful corals.

[Wendy]

A beautiful capture of these amazing creatures!
Well done!

[Lou Ann]

An amazing phenomenon that I’ve never seen before!

[Merrelyn]

Amazing, I've ever seen these before :)

[Henri Russell]

I've never seen or heard of these. So interesting and pretty.

[katy]

Nice light shadows and composition for this fascinating looking creature in your fabulous photo

[Helen Jane]

these are really natural corals? I thought something bought at a gift shop when I saw them. How astonishing they are. If you are really begging, I will try and have a go at the tag challenge - it is ages since I looked at the challenges.

[Kathy]

Odd looking creatures.