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British Antarctic SurveyHuge #Antarctic sea anemones (Hormathia or similar) dangle their tentacles in the icy water! All of the animals that I have spotted so far are filter feeding! (2)pic.twitter.com/Os7l9sd5OG
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Huge congratulations to @Endurance_22 and @NatGeo for finding the wreck of #Shackleton’s #Endurance. The wreck is amazing but can we also talk about some of the #Antarctic sea floor creatures that now call it home! Add any others you spot to the thread! (1)pic.twitter.com/QULEJkoiW4
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Sea squirts pump water in and out through their two syphons to collect plankton and marine snow (dead things and poo raining down from the surface). (3)pic.twitter.com/lCN61fvkf1
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A beautiful brisingid starfish or sea star reaches out into the darkness to filter feed (4)pic.twitter.com/tjW8Vgb2b4
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Stalked animals, probably glass sponges. Possibly similar to the life we found on the boulder under the Filchner ice shelf with
@BAS_News (5)pic.twitter.com/4lNvBIpdDb
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Stalked ascidians or sea squirts? Any suggestions
@echinoblog@Dr_MTaylor@DrShmoo@helena_wiklund@adrg1? (6)pic.twitter.com/xYBk75PiCj
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And my favourite
@Endurance_22 spot so far is the bright yellow sea lily or stalked#crinoid! Sea lilies date back over 480 million years and used to be very common and diverse in all the world’s oceans until the Triassic period! (7)pic.twitter.com/kQ8zrn1ddL
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Thanks to
@BBCAmos for helping me to get some clearer images! The solid structure of the ship plays home to a delicate and beautiful ecosystem of filter feeding animals 3km down from the icy surface!#Endurance22#Shackleton#Antarcticapic.twitter.com/Bm2y6Ihsc9
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Sorry
@BBCAmos I couldn’t resist giving it the#Titanic@LeoDiCaprio touch. This plucky sea anemone is hanging out at the bow of the ship and right now is “king (or queen) of the world”#Endurance22#Antarcticapic.twitter.com/c6uIfj7LHk
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Ok so I changed my mind! In one of the higher resolution images shared by
@BBCAmos my@BAS_News colleague Dr Katrin Linse and I just spotted a CRAB!!! Probably a munopsid of kiwa (yeti crab)! Crabs have NEVER been recorded in the Weddell Sea before! AMAZING find!pic.twitter.com/02GPWwQHvv
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Here are the maps of previously recorded crabs and lobsters from around Antarctica from our paper ironically titled “Antarctic Crabs: Invasion or
#Endurance?”! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0066981 …pic.twitter.com/DHjQ8Y64YW
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The
#Endurance seems to be being steered by a sea anemone at the wheel!pic.twitter.com/ia5esCOGNf
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I would say that this appears to be some sort of coral!
@Dr_MTaylor would know more!#Endurance22pic.twitter.com/HzbEwkhu4Z
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