See Strange Deep-Sea Creatures, from ‘Sea Pigs’ to ‘Disco Worms’

Discover some of the most strangest creatures in the deep sea, ‘Marine pigs’ ‘Disk worms’

By Ashley Balzer care Edited Andrea Thompson

A whole world is deeply inhabited under the surface of the ocean, as a human notice and any city as any city. Animals, such as tubeworms and clams live crowded Light methane with that bubble Through cracks on the ocean floor. The residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea ooughs are some of the many areas of the ocean floor of scientists starting to exploreKnowing new species along the way.

Schmidt Ocean Institute Explorer of exploration in his research packaging Fallor (also) Almost 20 underwater gas escapes and five Deep sea canyons Outside the coast of Chile. Along the way, the research team used underwater robots to move the characters in the fever, including 60 that may be new to science.

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Scientists see methanos with visual surveys like this, combining marine maps and chemical sampling in alleged sites, they also found the bubbles to tell him. The clams flow micro around the methane so that chemical microbes have a rich food supply. A Microbes make methane organic molecule clams are absorbed as nutrients.

Compact colonial colonies that are built near spects are delicious bacteria for other organisms, such as small shrimps, watching the bacterial matters when they graze the cows in the grass.

Like clams, tubeworms work with microbes Get food to leave methane. They also offer anchor points for other creatures, such as pink basket star, spikiy sea urchin and sea star star, here, with a brown tank box next to the methane.

They serve as a marine hedgehog as a sea recycler, which breaks the dead plants and animals that break the sea and the foods available to other organisms. They attract such predators Sea stars.

This deep sea Angle AngelesaThose who are working to identify the mission researchers, scientists found in one of the five submarine canyons that explored the same 55-day expedition. Like underwater canyons, these formations fall from the sea to the sea from the deep sea, sculpted by hard currents. Sediments, nutrients and organisms are performed as a buffet in a boat belt and attract all creatures from all sea creatures, such as this fish.

Also found in a submarine canyon floor: Sometimes it is called “album worms” sometimes, but it is known as the name Policchaete (a lot of “whipped”), like sparkling steel wool. His rumors have small protein-based structures, which can avoid prey.

Scientists also saw this trippack fish, so designated, because it often stops three long and thin fins and leaves the currents of the ocean to bring food.

Researchers saw recently identified “Mystery mollusk“(Bathydevius caudactylus) far from the known district. Fantomlic creature, Nudibranch species, never seen it in the southern hemisphere. Under the surface were found more than 7,000 meters, the “midnight area” of the ocean.

Some of the observations of the researchers were more popular, for example, this sea star was found in another underwater canyon. Many small tubes help surfaces like stone canyon walls and move through the sea.

When scientists sent a Underwater robot to the Twilight zone, when sunlight disappears in dark and sunset in the evening, they saw this violium minusaket (Serium Colobonema). It may have been waiting for prey as a tremendous part of the ocean depth Daily migration.

Here, a creature with orange arms call crinoid perches a glass of clams surrounded. Glass sailing creates marine habitats for other organisms, coral reefs make in golden water.

The team found some of his strangest discoveries to see the Ides seen and among the cannons. This siphonophore – a single-cell collection to complete a larger creature, to form a larger creature, from the island of Mocha (a small island on the Chilean coast, while scientists poured methane.

The inhabitants of the coast must last small freezing conditions found in the ocean. This sea cucumber (“Marine Pork” nickname) slowly saw more than 9,000 meters wandering under water. Have A lot of water exceeds It is like having dozens of elephants on the sea level. Sea pigs survive intense pressure to some extent thanks to their flexible body.

“Through this explorer expedition, we were able to survey the raw biodiversity and study marine oils, in many places that were not explored in detail,” says Jeffrey Marlow, an assistant professor at Boston, and one of the expedition scientists. “Now we will examine the samples collected in the laboratory to learn about the horrible life we ​​saw in the expedition. Whether these organizations came from, how all the critical functions of this rich ecosystem mean.”