Gulper eel said, "I can't see shit down here. So I'm just going to swim around with my mouth open, and I'm just going to call whatever gets in there lunch."
To which evolution replied, "Bet?"
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Orca. They're just too damn cool, and they refuse to eat humans for some unknown reason. They, as a species, literally eat anything else that dares to enter their water including polar bears.
I personally maintain that some Orca took out an elderly or young human at some point, and the villagers responded by wiping out the entire pod of orca except for a traumatized survivor that told the rest of the orcas that they shouldn't ever eat the angry hairless monkeys, and the species has remembered for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years.
No love for iron snails?
Batfish.
That's batfish insane.
All octopodes are good octopodes.
Angler Fish
I was team Angler Fish when I got here but damn, there are some good candidates mentioned!
All of them. There's so many.
Sunfish. Vampire squid. Blob fish. That terrifying worm that hides. Pistol shrimp.
It's a whole new world down there. Forget Mars!
Lung fish, black fish, alligator, Ice fish.
Armour head, hammer head, anaconda, flat head.
Manta ray, stingray, fang-tooth moray.
Goblin shark, grass carp, round-river-bat ray.
Noodle fish, hag fish, man o' war, lady fish.
Black eel, baby seal, sprat, koi, electric eel.
Lamprey, pejerey, yellow-edged moray.
Salmon shark, sleeper shark, featherback and eagle ray.
We didn't start the current!
It was always flowin'
Since the Earth's been slowin'
We didn’t start the fire
Cephalopods of all kinds are fabulous, but it's a crime I haven't seen siphonophores here.
Oarfish give me a sense of dread in the pit of my stomach, they're so cool
Cuttlefish
Someday, cuttlefish will start the plan to take over the world in june 28th, 2025.
Greenland sharks have the longest lifespan of any known vertebrate, estimated to be between 250 and 500 years. They are among the largest extant shark species, reaching a maximum confirmed length of 6.4 m (21 ft) long and weighing over 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). They reach sexual maturity at about 150 years of age, and their pups are born alive after an estimated gestation period of 8 to 18 years.
Absolutely everything about them is interesting. And as far as an entity, they are a fantastic role model. The world would be a much better place if we were all more like the Greenland Shark.
Imagine being pregnant for 18 years...
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Whats the scientific term for that oceangate thing that sploaded with all the billionaires?
Karma?
Siphonophores. Extremely alien looking colonial organisms. Iirc they are, by far, the longest known aquatic creatures.
Bruh siphonophores are so fascinating.
Idk if I have a fave deep sea creature, I’ll have to think about that.. but I’m rather fond of coconut crabs. They steal shit from people, and are enormous.
And maybe they killed Amelia Earhart!
Or at least stole her heart and ear
It's not a super creative or interesting answer, but I'd be lying if I said anything other than the giant squid. That's gotta be one of the wildest most alien things on our planet. Squid are already fascinatingly weird and now you're telling me there are squids the size of a horse that fight whales at the bottom of the ocean? Amazing. Please stay down at the bottom of the sea where I am not. I know the colossal squid is bigger, but it's cool that the giant one is probably the basis of some of our most enduring myths of sea monsters and the name "giant squid" just rolls off the tongue really well
Those creatures that live around high temperatures hydrothermal vents, they don't get their energy from the sun!
Dunno if it counts as deep sea, but coelacanths =)
Deep enough to hide until roughly WWI
i don't really care about animals... i know like three different fish and that's it as far as sea creatures go. i will still listen to people talk about them though.
Orca care about you. They are the only apex predator that refuses to hunt or eat humans. We are unique there too. They will eat other monkeys and apes that they rarely happen upon, and they eat polar bears and other bears whenever they can catch them.
Last time an orca even bit a human in nature, the human was asking for it. They were poking the orca with a blunted harpoon. The orca snapped, bit their arm, realized what it just bit and let go before it severed the dude's arm. Then all the orcas in the area left for a decade or so. This was back in the late 1800s on the Pacific coast of Alaska.
that's so cool!
Goblin shark
Ez-pz
Goblins can be sharks?
Well, sharks be gobblin for sure.
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