More Mind-blowing Photos of Deep-Sea Creatures!

in #travel6 years ago

Aliens exist! And they live much closer than you think...

Side profile of a swimming dumbo octopus

Agggh, what the heck is that thing?!

Dumbo Octopus swimming

That's a Dumbo Octopus, a deep-dwelling species of octopus that "flies" with the two little "ears" on top of its head. It is rarely sighted shallower than 600m/2000ft.

In my How to Survive a Homemade Submarine series of blog posts (read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 here), I shared some amazing photographs of deep-sea creatures taken from Karl Stanley's submarine by myself and Lia Barrett.

I didn't have room in the blog narrative to weave in some of the other fantastic creatures Karl has spotted from his submarine. Weirdness like...

Rough Shark

Part ray, part shark, part... pig? The seldom-sighted Rough Shark is a weird mashup of evolutionary adaptations.

Chimera

And then there's this literal mashup: the Chimera. It's in the name.

Soldierfish

Red is the new black in the abyss, as demonstrated by these Soldierfish. Since red wavelengths can't penetrate the ocean depths, their red scales effectively render these fish invisible.

Jellyfish at 2000ft

See, this jellyfish-from-hell wears the red nicely!

Jellynose Fish

Ok, now nature is just screwing with us. Clearly, this is just a penis with fins attached. Or it's a Jellynose Fish, if you want to be scientific about it.

Five Sea Lillies

These Sea Lillies may look like beautiful flowers, but look closer: those white spikes are it's legs, and that flower is it's head and mouth. Nightmare fuel!

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OH HI THERE! DID SOMEONE SAY NIGHTMARE FUEL?


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Thanks for sharing these photos. I think that they are marvellous. Not a place that I would like to go, underwater, so it is good to see what lives there.

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