OK, after the <a href="http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/archives/2005/03/sauntering_ceph.html" target="new">cephalopods</a> walking on two "legs" come more things that just aren't right at the bottom of the sea.

The <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn8168V1.mov" target=new>walking sea lilly</a>... (.mov file). God help us if these things ever discover the world above.

"The humble sea lily, which normally remains rooted to the ocean bed by a stem, has been caught creeping away from predators in deep sea video footage.

The creature – Endoxocrinus parrae – is an ocean animal closely related to the starfish, sea cucumber and sea urchin. With a ring of feathery fingers and a stalk 50 centimetres long, it resembles an ocean garden flower. But the new video shows it has a sophisticated method for avoiding danger.

The footage was taken at a depth of 430 metres from a submersible close to Grand Bahama Island. It shows, for the first time, a sea lily crawling slowly across the ocean floor on its fingers, dragging its broken stem behind it."

Full story at <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8168" target="new" >New Scientist</a>