WEBVTT 00:00:06.900 --> 00:00:09.480 Take a closer look at this. 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:15.379 Looks like a sea spider, pycnogonid, seen a few of these on the expedition thus far. 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:20.120 But now we are looking at the pycnogonids proboscis. 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:25.411 Looks like it's extended but maybe not in contact with the rock. 00:00:25.411 --> 00:00:26.411 I can't quite tell. 00:00:26.411 --> 00:00:27.411 I don't know, looks like something gelatinous there. 00:00:27.411 --> 00:00:29.259 Could be feeding on. 00:00:29.260 --> 00:00:32.140 Maybe a cup coral. 00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:34.200 It's a cup coral. 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:35.880 Oh my goodness. 00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:37.579 It's eating the cup coral. 00:00:37.580 --> 00:00:40.190 I can see the tentacles now. 00:00:41.820 --> 00:00:46.760 Just sticking it's proboscis in the cup coral and slurping it up. 00:00:46.769 --> 00:00:48.590 I've seen them eating hydroids. 00:00:48.590 --> 00:00:51.620 I've seen them eating small gelatinous plankton. 00:00:51.620 --> 00:00:58.629 I've seen them on branched octocorals eating corals, but I've haven't ever seen pycnogonids 00:00:58.629 --> 00:01:01.620 or sea spider eating cup corals. 00:01:01.900 --> 00:01:04.900 A new connection in the food web for sure.