A basket star perches on a tubeworm, giving a leg (or tubeworm…) up into the water column where it can better grab food that is drifting by. Observed during Dive 04 of the Seascape Alaska 3 expedition at a depth of 2,020 meters (1.3 miles).
Basket Star
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A basket star perches on a tubeworm, giving a leg (or tubeworm…) up into the water column where it can better grab food that is drifting by. Observed during Dive 04 of the Seascape Alaska 3 expedition at a depth of 2,020 meters (1.3 miles).