Watch This 'Headless Chicken Monster' Crawl the Deep Southern Ocean
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Remote and expansive, the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica remains one of the most mysterious and least-explored regions on Earth. But newly released footage of a creature nicknamed the “headless chicken monster,” captured by specialized cameras three kilometers (roughly two miles) beneath the ocean surface, prove that this world is teeming with weird life-forms.
This colorful creature, known as Enypniastes eximia, is a type of sea cucumber that has adapted to deep sea environments. The species was caught on video for the first time in the Gulf of Mexico in 2017. Now, fisheries cameras deployed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), a division of Australia’s Department of the Environment, have captured it on video for the first time in the Southern Ocean.