Deep Sea Animals of the Marshall Islands | Nautilus Live

We have a swimming crinoid. Oh, look at that. It's always a joy. It is. Look at that. It reminds me of those weird things in the movie Avatar. The flying little... You know, a lot of that was based off of sea critters. Yeah. Kind of James Cameron's thing. I love that so much. It's spectacular. There's your highlight video. This is the perfect creature to be inspired by. Look at that. With the marine snow, it kind of looks like it's swimming in space a little bit. It is swimming in space. Hey, this is the true planet. Earth is a water planet. We just exist on the other 30% of it. Surface area wise. Incredible. There's a fish. What is that? This is a cutthroat eel. A cutthroat eel? We call them that because their gill openings are right underneath what you would perceive as the neck. It gives them this perspective that their throat is cut. Oh. The way to tell what kind of eel it is, we have to look at the dorsal fin. What I'm looking at is where the dorsal fin begins if it begins further back on the body than the anal fin. This one begins further back on the body than the anal fin. This is the genus Sinaphobranchus. It looks like it begins quite far back. It's probably Sinaphobranchus brevidorsalis. Wow. It's a zoantherian backpack and a hermit crab. That's a big backpack. Oh my gosh. That's great. They look really weird when the backpack comes off. Really weird. This is actually pretty comical. It really is. It's moving so slowly. You can't see me if I move slow enough. You think I'm just a zoantherian. Long-legged shrimp called nematocarsinus. Whoa. That's cool. Those are some seriously long legs. Look how slender they are. Right? It's like a daddy long leg of the sea. If that shrimp could talk, it'd probably have the biggest ego. It's got its nose turned up and everything. It's snooty. Getting kind of like a British accent energy out of it. Why, hello there. Tea and crumpets. We're going to get cancelled. Are we? No. I think we just lost our whole country. Everyone in Brandis throwing their hands up and closing out the tab. There are six views right now from the UK. Our sincere apologies to those six people. This is a deep sea long-spined sea urchin or a spit-out diatomated urchin. That is full. You can see it with its little movements as well. This one has stingers. What's cool about these urchins is that their tissues actually extend all the way to the tips of their spines. Really? That's wild. They can actually oxygenate themselves by waving their spines around. That's how they gas exchange. What a cool adaptation. Lots of surface area. There's a sea cucumber we can look at. You can see all the sediment in the gut there. Is that what it is? It's so much. Just a vacuum cleaner of the sea. You can see it all coiled up in there. That is a very full sea cucumber. It is so cute. Is that the brain? What am I looking at? The little fluffy bits? Yeah, what is that? They're pink. It's definitely not the brain. I was like, is that too big? They're not big on brains. They've got like two brain cells. They don't have a ton in the brains department, do they? That's a larger crab. There's more. Look at that. Maybe this is like a swap meet. It's just big. That one's just chilling out. You get a really good view of those rear legs. It's weird to see so many of them in the same spot. Maybe this is like a breeding area. Maybe that's why they don't have their stuff. They have to molt before they mate. Do all crabs do that? Or is this just a species specific thing? All crabs need to molt. At least the females need to molt before they can mate. Is that a squat lobster? What do we have here? What is that? I am not sure what we're looking at. A crustacean. It's so interesting. That's as far as I can see. Is it alive? What? The asymmetrical arms. Do you think it's eating something? Is that an isopod on it? What's it doing? Like an anemone backpack. It's got an anemone backpack. Can we suction this? Or is that going to be an extreme challenge? Hold your position. As long as he doesn't run away from me. Looks like he's got some moves. He's got some speed. I wonder why. Is he on the porch? It's on the porch. It's fast. It's so fast. I have never in my life seen a deep sea creature move that fast. I think it wants to come with us. It's got a lot of energy. It's over there. It's on the sea frog bag. It was just an intimidation strategy. So cute. That was awesome. The courage. Look at it. Look at it go. It's really mesmerizing. It is. This is so cool. Oh my gosh. This footage is incredible. This is incredible. Oh my gosh. Wow. That's gorgeous. It has these special little pelps, those little antenna-like projections that they can drop. Their common name is Green Bomber. I could look at this all day. They're really small. Many times polychaetes are burrowers. There are only a few of them that swim like this. They usually are considered aquarium pests. That footage was incredible. Oh my gosh. We kind of went off on a little chase there. Let's go for fish. I'm going for the chase video. Dan, let's do it. Together. Our powers combined. I'm going to try to stay this altitude. I'm racing over there. Coming in hot. Keep the zoom. That's full zoom. We're seeing this live. This is E.V. Nautilus. This is a cusk eel. We're up here right now. Go, go, go. Wow. Oh my gosh. Laughter.