Scientists have made a great video of a rare resident of the sea depth: a sea spider of a plate of cow eating along the seabed in the southern sandwich Islands. Volcanic Islands near Antarctica, one of the furthest corners in the world, wrote Direct science.
Sea spider, or picnic, is a distant relative of spiders living on land. These organisms have a foot rate of up to 50 cm, nearly double the largest ground.
According to the Schmidovskiy of the Ocean Institute (USA), this video publication on social networks, the huge size of the spider is the consequence of the deep giantism. This is the name of the trend when residents of sea depth become much larger than their shallow relatives. In this case, the sea spider was removed at a depth of 2 104 meters.
Scientists said high pressure and ice temperature, which are not overcome for land residents, allowing some animals to have very slow metabolism and the ability to achieve huge size, scientists said.
Larger animals can move faster and further to find food or partners, which is important when the population density of small Muslims at the bottom. Deep -Sea Gigantism is particularly popular near the poles, where low temperatures contribute to slow metabolism.
Science knows about 1,500 species of sea spiders, but it is thought that many people have not opened. Sea spider lives in oceans all over the world. The largest representatives of this group are usually at a depth of 2,200 to 4,000 meters. Instead of weaving the web or digging holes, because spiders on the mainland, the sea uses a special tubular structure of the oral, called the faucet to digest first, then suck the victim. They eat other assets, jellyfish and invertebrates.
Employees have been removed by pilots of the movement remote control. The purpose of the expedition is to search and describe new species in these cold waters. According to the researchers, only 10% of the marine residents were discovered in this part of the ocean.