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Just in time for Halloween, the Australian Antarctic Division has finally caught the elusive headless chicken monster (enypniastes eximia) on video, according to Geek.com (bit.ly/chickbeast). Technically, the critter is some sort of swimming sea cucumber, but got the new moniker from observers watching its movements in the video. A screen shot is shown.

New underwater camera technology, attached to fishing gear that can go to almost 2 miles down, made filming this denizen of the deep Southern Ocean possible. The cameras are being used to find vulnerable marine ecosystems so the fishing industry can avoid them.

“Some of the footage we are getting back from the cameras is breathtaking,” Australian Antarctic Division program leader Dirk Welsford said, “including species we have never seen in this part of the world.”