A deep-sea swimming sea cucumber has been filmed in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica for the first time.
Its real name is Enypniastes eximia, but it is more commonly known as the “headless chicken sea monster”, as that is exactly what it looks like!
The creature had previously only been filmed in the Gulf of Mexico.
This remarkable little creature spends most of its time buoying along the seafloor and using its “modified tube-feet” to feed on surface sediments. They can swim if they want to, and use fin-like structures to escape predators or lift off the ocean floor.
Sea cucumbers, such as this one, are an important part of the marine ecosystem — they’re sometimes referred to as the vacuum cleaners of the sea.
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That is so cool and amazing
Wow what a find
weird monster
That looks nothing like a headless chicken
This is epic
This is epic, Do the chicken dance
That chicken is doing the epic chicken dance
Wow so epic
This chicken is cool
wow. this, is so epic.
Its cute. I wanna pat it.
Crazy coooooool ?????
WOW but i’ve seen better
is it bad because it looks so disgusting.
can that bite?
Just crazy
very facinating
Does it lay eggs
How does that look like a headless chicken?
I am so confused.
Can it see?
that is way cool
This is epic
weird
ewwwww
is that real
That’s disgusting!
yooooooo duuuuuude
Have to admit that I was a little bit scared at the sight of this picture…
It is ugly
#wierd
Awww it is sooooooo cute
That sick??
So weird it is
That looks interesting
That is way cool and wierd
I like the sound
ummmm
Wow a headless chicken under water ?
IMPOSSIBLE
Ugly
probs a jelly fish
jellyfish
That’s just plain ugly
uggaly
Ewww
creepy
Looks like a jelly fish
Where was it found
that is one of the most ugliest thing in the world