They are used to a dense pressure environment, which is roughly 380 times greater on the Antarctic seafloor than on the surface. Therefore sea pigs - and other deep-sea creatures - can look very ...

An entire world lives deep under the ocean’s surface ... of elephants stacked on top of your head at sea level. Sea pigs survive the intense pressure partly thanks to their flexible body.

Their sometimes “abundantly large” size is attributed to a phenomenon seen in polar regions called deep-sea gigantism, the institute said. “Immense pressure and frigid temperatures ...