Nightshift got a visit from an Oceanic Whitetip Shark #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre

First boxcore #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre

Recovering our time-lapse camera Bathysnap. It has been on the seabed taking photos for 330 days to uncover behaviour of abyssal animals #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre

Our first pictures of the Clarion Clipperton Zone seabed from the time-lapse camera Bathysnap #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre

Lighting the face of the deep. Our robotic submarine illuminates a glass sponge in the abyss #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre

Abyssal prawn imaged by robotic submarine. An example of the amazing biodiversity of the Pacific Clarion Clipperton Zone #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre

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Just seen this anemone at 4100 m depth in the Pacific Clarion Clipperton Zone #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre

Watching our autonomous submarine dive for an abyssal biodiversity assessment mission #smartexccz ⁦National Oceanography Centre⁩

A long way from land #smartexccz ⁦National Oceanography Centre⁩

At over 70 cm long, this lizardfish is one of the biggest things we've seen on our expedition to the abyssal seafloor of the Pacific Clarion Clipperton Zone #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre Science at the Natural History Museum

Sea anemone on the Pacific abyssal seafloor in the Clarion Clipperton Zone #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre Science at the Natural History Museum

Our autonomous submarine Autosub5 surfaces after mapping, sampling and photographing abyssal Pacific biodiversity #smartexccz ⁦National Oceanography Centre⁩

This seapen has the amazing name Umbellula. It is bioluminescent and may act as a beacon of light on the abyssal seafloor here in the Pacific Clarion Clipperton Zone #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre Science at the Natural History Museum

Drone video of our autonomous submarine #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre

Exciting the see the southern constellations in the night sky over the Pacific: the Southern Cross and Scorpius #smartexccz

Sea cucumber slowly glides along the seafloor while eating. Sped up so 8 minutes takes 8 seconds #smartexccz

A sea lily in the abyssal Pacific #smartexccz National Oceanography Centre

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We found the “Barbie Pig”! Here are some of the latest #smartexccz results. Amazing animals from the abyssal Pacific Clarion Clipperton Zone National Oceanography Centre Science at the Natural History Museum iflscience.com/barbie-pigs-am…