A new species of deep-sea cucumber has over 100 feet in alternating two or three rows. This means of course that when it plays the This Little Piggy nursery rhyme it needs to repeat it 25 times. The multi-footed walking banana is called Oneirophanta idsseica and discovered at depth up to 3.8 kilometers deep in the South China Sea. At nearly 30 centimeters long and 10 wide, the new species is also a bit of a chonker.
Xiao, Yunlu, and Haibin Zhang. ” Three new species and one new record of Deimatidae (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea, Synallactida) discovered in the South China Sea and the Mariana fore-arc area using integrative taxonomic methods.” ZooKeys 1195 (2024): 309.
