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Video: Ghostly Antarctic deep-sea life
photo by Lieutenant Elizabeth Crapo, NOAA Corps (Flickr CC)
Over 2,000 meters beneath the surface of the Southern (aka Antarctic) Ocean lives a colorless collection of newly discovered life forms.
The animals that make up this ghostly white ecosystem survive without sunlight, instead living off minerals and energy from volcanic vents, which make waters as hot as 382°C (720°F). That’s pretty hot, especially considering it’s deep-sea Antarctica.
From the Christian Science Monitor:
Unlike vents in other oceans, the Antarctic vents lack tube worms, mussels and shrimp. Instead they harbor new species of barnacles and anemones, as well as a large brown spiral-shelled snail. The researchers even saw ghost-pale octopuses, which seemed drawn to the lights of the ROV.
The below video from ITN was shot by a submersible and shows a previously unknown species of white octopus plus predatory sea stars and piles of yeti crabs.
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just making up some issues down there to give color to their lives hahahahahahahahahhhaha
Are you accusing white octopi as being inherently racist?
hehehhehhhe The albino under world…aren’t they racist? coz they’re all whites…….