10-6-26 New Creature Found in the Deep Sea, Healing With Vanilla, Tropical Travel

Before we travel though on our virtual trip, I, I did wanna tell you about this cool new creature found in the deep, deep sea.

I, I saw it at first and it looked like feet to me.

[laughs] It's the way it moves.

But actually it's the curl on the top.

You see its kinda weird little tail? Because of that, they have named it Loki, and Loki is one of 57 new species discovered in the deep sea canyon near Argentina.

Now, this is a sea cucumber, Loki the sea cucumber they call it.

One of m- many newly discovered marine species in the South Atlantic Ocean, these creatures discovered during the expedition of Mar del Plata submarine canyon off the coast of Argentina about a year ago.

This is an area, it's called the Brazil Malvinas Confluence, and it is where the warm subtropical currents collide with cold nutrient rich sub-Antarctic waters.

And what you get is this, they call it a crossroad bustling with biodiversity.

The submarine canyon itself is nearly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, so more than 11,000 feet.

They said among this new crop of ocean dwellers is here we have pictured Loki the sea cucumber.

Named for its appendages which resemble the Norse god of mischief's horns, Loki was discovered at 8,454 feet deep.

It is one of 10 potentially new sea cucumber species discovered in this expedition.

And they put some video up so we can see how Loki moves.

I'm interested.

I hope you're interested too, because we're about to check this out.

Here's how Loki moves.

[water bubbling] [laughs]

It's translucent in appearance, almost pinkish white.

You can see its internal organs.

So interesting to look at this creature.

You can kind of see it moving there.

I don't know if it ever really gets going.

And there it is.

Oh, look at that giant sea spider crawling in on the side.

Before we travel though on our virtual trip, I, I did wanna tell you about this cool new creature found in the deep, deep sea.

I, I saw it at first and it looked like feet to me.

[laughs] It's the way it moves.

But actually it's the curl on the top.

You see its kinda weird little tail? Because of that, they have named it Loki, and Loki is one of 57 new species discovered in the deep sea canyon near Argentina.

Now, this is a sea cucumber, Loki the sea cucumber they call it.

One of m- many newly discovered marine species in the South Atlantic Ocean, these creatures discovered during the expedition of Mar del Plata submarine canyon off the coast of Argentina about a year ago.

This is an area, it's called the Brazil Malvinas Confluence, and it is where the warm subtropical currents collide with cold nutrient rich sub-Antarctic waters.

And what you get is this, they call it a crossroad bustling with biodiversity.

The submarine canyon itself is nearly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon, so more than 11,000 feet.

They said among this new crop of ocean dwellers is here we have pictured Loki the sea cucumber.

Named for its appendages which resemble the Norse god of mischief's horns, Loki was discovered at 8,454 feet deep.

It is one of 10 potentially new sea cucumber species discovered in this expedition.

And they put some video up so we can see how Loki moves.

I'm interested.

I hope you're interested too, because we're about to check this out.

Here's how Loki moves.

[water bubbling] [laughs]

It's translucent in appearance, almost pinkish white.

You can see its internal organs.

So interesting to look at this creature.

You can kind of see it moving there.

I don't know if it ever really gets going.

And there it is.

Oh, look at that giant sea spider crawling in on the side.