Scientists for the first time took pictures of the "deep sea cucumber" in the Antarctic Ocean using imaging technology developed by Australian scientists.
Scientists have already seen the sea cucumber, also called the headless chicken monster, and lives in deep water, once known as the "Enibenists Eximia", was in the Gulf of Mexico via private cameras.
"Some of the images we have obtained are very exciting, including those we have never seen in this part of the world," said Dirk Weilsford, the Australian Antarctic Development Program's leader.
"The protective cover that protects the camera and the devices is designed to withstand the drilled edges of the South Pole, so it must be very strong," Weilsford said.
"We needed something that would continue to work efficiently under terrible pressure in a very dark environment for long periods of time," he said, quoted by The Guardian.
The sea cucumber is a mollusc animal belonging to the dermatological division, and there are hundreds of species in different seas and oceans of the world.
But the types of sea cucumbers that live in deep depths, like other creatures in such places, are difficult to take pictures of, as water pressure reaches very large numbers as well as darkness.
