The deep seafloor is covered in bloated pink creatures that look like swimming piglets
Scotoplanes, nicknamed 'sea pigs,' are a type of deep-sea sea cucumber that crawl across the abyssal plain on stubby, tube-foot 'legs,' hoovering up sediment for the organic scraps that drift down from the surface above. They're often the single most abundant large animal visible on camera surveys of the deep seafloor, sometimes appearing in the hundreds across one frame, and are known to gather especially densely around the nutrient-rich remains of whale carcasses.