All manner of deep ocean creatures live beneath the waves, from funky disco worms to octopuses and just about every manner of tentacled creature you can think of. Off the coast of Uruguay, a deep-sea chanchito, or sea pig, was recently recorded zooming past an underwater camera. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

As part of the Uruguay SUB200 program , the remotely operated vehicle SuBastian aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s Research Vessel Falkor (too) recorded a sea pig at a depth of 2,340 meters (7,677 feet) in the lower section of the José Ignacio submarine canyon. The beastie is thought to belong to the Scotoplanes genus, in the family Elpidiidae. They are not actually sea pigs, but rather sea cucumbers,

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