nurse sharks have been training for 112 million years

Cryptid fish that has only been seen once and never again that may or may not exist but well never know my beloved

If you don't know the story of the Beebe's Bathysphere Fish, you owe it to yourselves to read about it. It's one of my favorite examples of cryptozoology as the actual study of animals unknown to science, as opposed to just telling stories about monsters and appropriating world folklore.

立体図鑑 ディープシーフィッシュボックス (colorata)

Whale, whale, whalefish... what do we have here?

After centuries of research, scientists were finally able to put the pieces together on these puzzling deep sea fish families. Check out our latest collaborocean with our fronds at @SciShow and @MBARI_news to uncover a fishy deep sea mystery!

to sum up:

Less Famous But Super Weird Deep Sea Fish

 I’m gonna write a post of cool animal facts just to Blaze later. Typical deep sea anglerfish and some others are pretty famous but I’m going to spend maybe even ten whole dollars to make an extra thousand people look at these other fish that I don’t think enough people know about. Sources included for all images, many with additional information wherever possible, but there’s still very little known about many of these animals!

GIGANTACTIS - common name ”whipnose seadevil” - the Schmidt ocean institute recently took this detailed photo from a deep sea ROV of a fish almost never observed live, but it sure does actually look dead. These anglerfish spend most of their time floating upside-down like this with their proboscis-like lure dangling below, and one guess is that they may send the lure down into the tunnels of burrowing worms or crustaceans. In some species, the lure can be over six times the length of the body. MORE FISH:

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People seem to have liked this as a blaze so in the future I will definitely do a couple others. Definitely some bug facts, but I know some people get scared of even pictures so I may do those with drawings like I did my spider Halloween special :) …..or if I’m lazy just funny symbolic images

One of the weirdest takeaways from my SCUBA class: at certain depths, colors stop existing (due to the penetrating power of their wavelength, in order of the spectrum), with red being the first to go at about 20 feet down. This being in relation to light from the sun - not artificial light and bioluminescence is a whole nother kettle of fish.

You know how octopuses are red when agitated? At their normal depths, that would be black. It's only when you bring another light down there or bring them up within twenty feet of the surface that they would be red.

Same goes for giant squid, colossal squid, vampire squid, etc.

These animals are functionally black. We only bring red to the deep sea (and the moderately deep sea, too) by bringing artificial lights down there.

Just a reminder that color is a quality of light and medium it's traveling through, not really innate to matter. Since red does not exist in the deep sea, it doesn't matter if you reflect it, it's just a non-factor. It would be as if our atmosphere filtered out another color and we went into space and found that humans all had octarine stripes. If we could even percive that. These deep sea critters evolved to be black and are black in all the ways that matter.

Yep! ALTHOUGH!! the dragon fishes (and almost nothing else we know of) including loosejaws and some viperfish emit red bioluminescent beams from under their eyes, giving them the ability to plainly see all these otherwise black things!

And since most prey can't see red, they can't even tell when they're in a dragon's searchlights

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Scientific photography by Arthur Anker

1.- Crab megalopa (Carpilius sp ?)

2.- Stilapex montrouzieri (Moorea, French Polynesia)

3.- Euthamneus cf rostratus (Moorea, French Polynesia)

4.- Stauromedusa (French Polynesia)

5.- Pilumnus vespertilio (Madagascar)

6.- Notospermus tricuspidatus (Moorea, French Polynesia)

7.- Diopatra sp

8.- Galeommatid bivalve, possibly Scintilla sp

9.- A thalassematid echiuran (Madang, Papua New Guinea)

10.- Male ovigerous sea spider (Pycnogonida)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/sets/72157623477677107/

1. A baby crab!

2. S N A I L

3. An amphipod, a common order of marine crustaceans

4. This looks kinda like an anemone, but it’s actually a jellyfish that lives upside down, attached to the sea floor by a stalk! All jellyfish start out their lives in this kind of anemone-like polyp phase, but this and related “stalked jellyfish” just never grow out of it!

5. I literally couldn’t tell what the fuck kind of animal this was but apparently it’s the Common Hairy Crab! The hairs trap dirt and stuff for it to use as camouflage!

6. Ribbon worm - no idea what the glowing is, but these things have crazy proboscises almost as long as their bodies that they can launch out of their mouths

7. A kind of bristle worm that lives in hard tubes they build for themselves on the seafloor

8. Y’all what the FUCK is up with this clam I cannot find any information about it. Why is it Like That

9. Spoon worm! Dunno much about them but that’s a real cute name

10. A sea spider! Not actually a spider, or even particularly closely related to any other arthropod species. Extremely good boys

Thank youuu for the summaries, I did not feel like looking up every one myself!!

Okay did some research into the ones you weren’t sure about and found some very cool facts!!

6. This ribbon worm just has a white line as a pattern on its head, not sure there’s a particular reason for it, BUT the zigzags correspond to its chemosensory cephalic slits, which I did not know ribbon worms had!

8. Okay, this I did know about–some clams brood their embryos in these sacs, then a passing fish eats it, and the embryos grow parasitically inside the fish until they reach maturity! The sacs get REALLY weird-looking, even looking identical to prey fish! You can read more here: https://bogleech.com/bio-clampirism.html

HOWEVER, what’s REALLY cool is that the family this particular clam belongs to has a genus in it called Waldo, which crawls around on sea urchins!!! How wild is that??!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldo_(bivalve)

Article here (yes, they named it after Where’s Waldo):

https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/08/19/wheres-waldo-off-the-pacific-coast/

yeah! Coelacanthus!

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Me nd my friends hangin out

“And it was all yellow…” Though over 70% of animals in the deep sea bioluminesce, Tomopteris bristle worms are some of the only ones known to produce yellow light. Look how they shine for you!

a baby changes everything

You are fucking kidding me

aww its a cute gif of a shark trying to bite but his mouth’s too smAHHHHWHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT OH MY GOD STOP NO STOP STOP STOP

if anybody is interested in being even more scared: these motherfuckers have been found in most oceans around the world and have existed for over 30 million years

The deep ocean is as close to hell as it gets man, this things a fucking nightmare

for example: tiger fish

vampire fish

basking shark

snakehead fish

and who can forget old mate ANGLER FISH

even better, the Sarcastic Fringehead  (yes Legit name) (also Known as ‘predator fish’)

Terrifying

my inner aquarium volunteer is screaming (SARCASTIC FRINGEHEADS OGHGHGHHFKgjdfhgJDGH) okay here we go

awww look it’s vampyroteuthis infernalis what a cutie

wait what—

whAT

hi missus footballfish how was your day??

Oh wait shit I forgot ur dead and preserved in formaldehyde that was rude of me sorry u look lovely mrs footballfish

hello i interrupt this scary marine animal showcase to present mr. california sheephead

he was born a girl like all his sisters. but since he had the biggest jaw size of the group

he changed into a dude fish who takes care of his sisters isn’t that so sweet

look at his lumpy ass head tho.

now back to your regularly scheduled scary-ass fish. oh look it’s cookie cutter shark

what big teeth you have—

oh fuck it lights up that’s it i’m out

you’re forgetting

the frilled shark literally a scary ass dinosaur that swallows shit wHOLE

the dragon fish holy shit what that is not a dragon

the goosefish please help me 

do well to remember the deep-sea lizard fish in your nightmares thank u

and people wonder why I have a phobia of the ocean.