These creatures camouflage themselves with sand when threatened and hunt invertebrates and vertebrates beneath the seabed for food.
With the help of specialized receptors that detect chemical signals, they trigger cellular activity and sustain their life cycles.
In underwater imaging studies conducted in Değirmendere, Gölcük, sea potatoes (Brissopsis lyrifera), which spend their entire lives buried in sand, were observed to have died en masse in parts of the gulf, especially below 30 meters, due to oxygen depletion.
