Meet Enypniastes eximia, the 'headless chicken monster'.

October 22, 2018 11:07 AM

This unusually mobile species of sea cucumber has only been captured on film once before, in the Gulf of Mexico. [YouTube] “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.” [via: Motherboard]
posted by Fizz (11 comments total)

I support this fancy pink creature and its many dainty squishy feetopods blorping across the ocean floor, it is doing a good job.
posted by poffin boffin at 11:17 AM on October 22, 2018 [24 favorites]

I've been falling in love with the ocean more and more lately and things like this are why.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 11:24 AM on October 22, 2018

I've been falling in love with the ocean more and more lately and things like this are why.

Maybe I'm just falling out of love with most of the things above surface level these days, but I hear ya.
posted by RolandOfEld at 11:25 AM on October 22, 2018 [3 favorites]

Outstanding.
posted by ryanshepard at 11:31 AM on October 22, 2018

I needed to see something nice this morning, like this beautiful, graceful sea creature in action. Thank you!
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:47 AM on October 22, 2018

"Cukie"
posted by growabrain at 11:48 AM on October 22, 2018

same taxonomic order as the jolly little sea pig
posted by murphy slaw at 11:55 AM on October 22, 2018

Lacking a head, its siren song—which sailors must lash themselves to their masts to resist the allure of—is emitted from another orifice.
posted by XMLicious at 12:10 PM on October 22, 2018 [8 favorites]

This was so beautiful and I like to imagine a somber choir of monks singing the background music while it blorps about. It seemed so ominous for the cheerful little blob!
posted by chatongriffes at 3:07 PM on October 22, 2018

Lacking a head, its siren song—which sailors must lash themselves to their masts to resist the allure of—is emitted from another orifice.

a somber choir of monks

Motets for five to eight cloacas.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 3:25 PM on October 22, 2018 [5 favorites]

Great. And now Cthulu is rising.
Thanks Alternate Timeline!
posted by sexyrobot at 12:23 AM on October 24, 2018