This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...
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Where does the bony-eared assfish live?
We spend so much time explaining to people that our footage is not AI-generated. 😮💨
Actually: Say hello to cirrothauma murrayi! 🐙
( Special thanks to Jeff Day for sharing this updated species ID.)
Delicate drifter
This deep-sea worm is one of the most fascinating animals encountered during the #Doldrums expedition. It resembles a rare group of pelagic annelids in the family Flabelligeridae, say Drs. Paula Zapata & María Isabel Aguilar. 4,155 m (about 2.6 miles)
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Ayoung Kim is a renowned multimedia artist and visual storyteller who joined the multidisciplinary #DesigningTheFuture3 science team as a member of our Artist-at-Sea program; she was the 70th artist since the program’s inception in 2015.
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🐙 Say hello to Inopinoteuthis magna — the big-eyed jellyhead. 🐙
And yes, that common name does makes us suspect someone’s kiddo was in the lab that day! (Special thanks to @jeffday.bsky.social for sharing this species ID when we posted a different view of the animal.) #Doldrums 2,923 m
Our latest expedition video from the #Doldrums expedition, led by Dr. Aaron Micallef, of @mbarinews.bsky.social, is live. Learn about finding fluids in the Ocean!
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