3m Long Worm Found At Antarctic
These creatures are so colourful!
Deep under the Antarctic ice, a rare, colourful burst of starfish and 3m-long monster worms has been filmed by a BBC camera crew.
Filmed in time-lapse, the extraordinary swarm of deep-sea creatures gathers to feed in a frenzy on the body of a seal, which had sunk to the ocean floor.
Such a bounty of food may only occur once every ten years in the ice-cold waters of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
The images were taken by divers filming for the natural history series Life.
Descending through a hole cut in the ice, cameramen Doug Allan and Hugh Miller set up a time-lapse camera on the ocean floor.
The time-lapse sequence revealed the feeding frenzy of hundreds of huge worms, starfish, brittle stars and sea-urchins.
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A worm that’s longer than a snake… scary….