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Melissa Hobson

Headless chicken monster: The deep sea cucumber with tubular feet for gobbling sediment

A deep-sea swimming sea cucumber, jokingly referred to as a headless chicken monster filmed in the Southern Ocean waters off East Antarctica October 20, 2018 in the Southern Ocean.
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Name: Headless chicken monster (Enypniastes eximia)

Where it lives: The depths of the world's oceans

What it eats: Marine snow (organic matter that floats from the surface down to the seabed)

If you happened upon this bizarre creature in the ocean, you could be forgiven for thinking someone had flung a chicken carcass into the sea and it was bobbing along on the current — hence its nickname, "the headless chicken monster."

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