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?”
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.
Batfish.That looks oddly familiar.
That’s batfish insane.
No love for iron snails?
The Nautilus. I just think they are neat!
All hail Lord Helix!
Wow. Forgot about that.
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 fire
We didn’t start the current!
It was always flowin’
Since the Earth’s been slowin’
We didn’t start the current!
So we decide to ride it
Since we can not fight it
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…
That is pretty cool
I wonder if they get cramps or sickness?
Angler Fish
I was team Angler Fish when I got here but damn, there are some good candidates mentioned!
I don’t have one, but now I’m thinking about it
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Then do orcas count? Because I just can’t think of anything from the depths I find that interesting, things just move so slow down there
But I have orca facts for days
Are you thinking about just those little bottom feeder guys on the sea floor? The deep sea has really fascinating creatures that you likely are very familiar with like the great white shark, vampire squid, ocean sunfish, giant squid, and the black seadevil! I dunno how deep orcas can dive, but maybe they do count as deep sea creatures if they spend a lot of time down there.
If great white sharks count I think orcas would too
But yeah… Those are cool and all, but it’s like asking me what my favorite kind of flower is. I see how they look cool, I see how others might get excited for them, but I’m just not that interested in them
But orcas have many different languages and cultures. They swim across entire oceans. Some of them started sinking yahts (for what I’m convinced is based on understanding which humans are destroying the world), but they never harm humans (outside of the ones driven insane by confinement)
They might actually be smarter than us, their brains are the most wrinkly in the world. They could have oral traditions going back as far as human history
purple morning glorys. thanks for asking
I totally get it. Orcas are cool as hell. I love that their grandmas are the bosses of their pods.
Btw, are we friends yet?
Yeah. I was torn on blood squid or just the straight up octopus or the angler fish but like idk and idc
What about the headless chicken fish?
Cephalopods of all kinds are fabulous, but it’s a crime I haven’t seen siphonophores here.
Whats the scientific term for that oceangate thing that sploaded with all the billionaires?
Karma?
Oarfish give me a sense of dread in the pit of my stomach, they’re so cool
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
What about the Colossal Squid
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
