Follow the food — sound advice for animals living in the deep. This Enypniastes eximia is a type of sea cucumber that has been found throughout our global Ocean in the abyssal zone, from 3,000 to 6,500 meters. At this depth, there is no sunlight to drive photosynthesis for food production, so many deep-sea residents rely on a steady diet of decaying organic matter sinking from upper layers of the water. Sea cucumbers eat copious amounts of this marine snow, clearing and aerating the sediment, ma
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A sensational smooth swimmer. This is Enypniastes eximia, a species of sea cucumber. It is the only one in its genus, making them unique among sea stars and urchins, their squishy-bodied relatives. While most of these creatures spend the majority of their lives scooping and pooping sediment on the seafloor, Enypniastes can swim. With webbed structures at the front and back of their bodies that act like fins, they can lift off the seafloor and swim up to 1,000 meters into the water column, accord
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HEADLESS CHICKEN MONSTER: A rarely-seen deep sea swimming cucumber called Enypniastes eximia — a.k.a. the "headless chicken monster" — was filmed for the first time in the Antarctic Ocean. It has only ever been filmed before in the Gulf of Mexico. | CBS News
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