15 Scary Deep Sea Creatures

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10 – Pacific Hatchetfish,

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  • You’ll find these in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and over the years they’ve evolved a peculiar body “hatchet” shape with bioluminescent photophores used to escape predators lurking in the depths by matching what light there is for camouflage
  • Unlike their appearance, they’re perfectly harmless and only coming in at 5 inches in size – but they’re just another example of deep sea aesthetic craziness

9 – Dumbo Octopus,

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  • This was first discovered in 1999, the deepest-living octopus species seen so far coming in at 7,000 metres below the surface of the ocean
  • This one hovers down under tremendous pressure of water, no sunlight, siphoning up snails, crustaceans and the like to feed
  • The dumbo name clearly comes from its appearance, one crazy to imagine it can maintain that far below an ocean

8 – Megamouth Shark,

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  • These are an extremely rare species of shark, in fact only 58 specimens have been found in the entire world to date
  • They have an enormous jaw used for scooping up plankton and jellyfish
  • These things can grow up to 5.5 metres in length and the average size of their mouth alone is 1.3 meters – seriously not something you want to get swallowed by

7 – Pacific Blackdragons,

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  • These ones are peculiar, 60cms long with fang teeth and a long whisker attached to their chin
  • They don’t have any teeth, no chin barbel and no stomach to process food
  • But curiously, males survive only long enough to mate – it’s up to the females to hunt other fish and crustaceans in the role of a predator

6 – Basking Shark,

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  • Another big-mouthed ocean shark, another passive feeder filtering zoo plankton, small fish and invertebrates from up to 2,000 tons of water per hour
  • These are often mistaken for Plesiosaurs the long-necked reptile from the age of the dinosaurs, and these are harmless to humans
  • However, humans are VERY harmful to the Basking Shark – they’re generally hunted for food and hide leather, but rapidly declining numbers have seen this shark close to extinction

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