Hoff Crab

Invertebrates > Kiwaidae & Hydrothermal Vent Crabs

The Hoff Crab (Kiwa tyleri) is an iconic deep-sea anomuran crab belonging to the celebrated ‘yeti crab’ family Kiwaidae. Formally described in 2015 from the volcanically active hydrothermal vent fields of the East Scotia Ridge in the Southern Ocean, this...

Headless Chicken Monster

Invertebrates > Sea Cucumbers

The Headless Chicken Monster (Enypniastes eximia), also known as the Spanish dancer sea cucumber, is one of the ocean’s most extraordinary swimming echinoderms. Abandoning the typical sluggish seafloor crawl of its cousins, this bizarre pelagic holothurian...

Ocellated Icefish

Fish > Notothenioids

The Ocellated Icefish (Chionodraco rastrospinosus) is one of the most astonishing physiological wonders of the animal kingdom. Endemic to the sub-zero waters surrounding Antarctica, this deep-water fish is member of the crocodile icefish family (Channichthyidae), the...

Patagonian Toothfish

Fish > Perciformes

The Patagonian Toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), celebrated in culinary gastronomy worldwide under the commercial market name ‘Chilean Seabass’, is the colossal, deep-sea monarch of the sub-Antarctic oceans. Stretching over seven feet long and living...

Southern Bluefin Tuna

Fish > Scombrids

The Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) is a supreme, warm-blooded titan of the high seas and one of the fastest, most powerful pelagic predators on Earth. Circling the stormy expanse of the Southern Hemisphere in a continuous circumpolar migration, this...