Sunday, November 20, 2011

Time lapse Video of the Rare deep-sea pourtalesiid Echinocrepis!


They were such strange beasts that it was difficult to reconcile that they could possibly believe that they were alive.. here is some neat video of one that turned up recently! Just to give you some frame of reference as to how weird and hard to encounter they are...

Even most scientists that study sea urchins have probably not seen these alive!
And now, thanks to "mvardaro" and the Smith Lab (formerly at UCSD) this video is available on Youtube. Amazing.

here's the animal again for reference..
More on Paris, later this week!

3 comments:

Danna Staaf said...

Oooh yes that's Mike Vardaro's dissertation! (He did more than just take the video in order to get the PhD, of course.) Also known as The Giant Nose Video.

ChrisM said...

Cool! Such strange critters...and that's saying something given how many strange critters I've seen...

pistol shrimp said...

Cool! Very rare and very alien for me. The sea is a very mysterious place still waiting to be discovered. It has always been fascinated me but there are times that I get scared at see.

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