A deep-sea swimming sea cucumber, also known as a "headless chicken monster," was among the creatures filmed by Australian researchers for the first time using new camera equipment. The strange ...

Australian researchers have developed new technology enabling them for the first time to film a deep-sea swimming sea cucumber, also known as a “headless chicken monster,” in Southern Ocean ...

The deep sea is home to weird and wonderful creatures that, over millions of years, have evolved specific traits to survive the extreme conditions of their habitat. These adaptations to their ...

By Mongabay.com Residents of Mafia Island in Tanzania don’t really eat sea cucumber; they call it jongoo bahari, or “ocean millipede” in Swahili. But sea cucumbers are a prized delicacy in ...

It was a “headless chicken monster,” or deep-sea cucumber, Enypniastes eximia, Schmidt Ocean Institute said in a Feb. 7 post on Twitter, now rebranded as X.

Sea cucumbers are marine invertebrates in the class Holothuroidea that live on the sea floor in both shallow and deep waters. They are echinoderms like sea urchins and starfish, which are also known ...

Maybe, like a deep-sea yeti crab, you look hairy, or like a house centipede you share a tiny apartment. Or like a city pigeon, you can trace your presence in the United States back to colonialism.

The deep sea is broadly defined as the depth where there is less light, at about 200 metres below the surface and below – extending thousands of meters below the surface. Freezing temperatures and ...

This deep-sea shark has an elongated, eel-like body that grows up to 6.6 feet (2 m) long, as well as a large, flattened head. It is found worldwide and swims by undulating its body like a snake.

Sea urchins move slowly, propelling themselves with their spines. Creatures of the Pacific Ocean zone proposed for deep sea mining Scientists from the US’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Scientists define the deep sea as encompassing all ocean waters below 656 feet (200 meters). In these regions, sunlight filtering through the water from above begins to dwindle, giving way to a ...