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Waiting for the captain by maximilian-lens

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Barreleye Fish

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New Invention Keeps Deep-Sea Creatures Alive at Surface 

| National Geographic

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The metal snail:

Chrysomallon squamiferum, the scaly foot Gastropod, ie the snail made out of FUCKN METAL! Dwelling on deep sea hydrothermal vents (see mini hot water volcano) feeding off the byproducts of the bacteria living within its body. Some populations of this snail includ iron sulfide in their shell, so much metal that they are actually MAGNETIC! Also, unique amongst snails, it has a bunch of small scutes that stick out from its foot (also reinforced with metal!).

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Some creative deep sea critters

I printed those as postcards for my artist table/online shop a while ago c:

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I couldn’t get any of you schmucks to do it so I had to do it myself

nautilus mermaid

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Neptunian Hadogender ocean, night, space, and whale moodboard for anon

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Neptunian: A gender that is linked to the void and fluctuates with softer celestial masculine energy. Hadogender: A gender connected to the deep ocean and eldritch secrets.

-Admin Kyle

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[Image Description: A picture of blue seafoam with text that reads “pansexual hadogender pride”]

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🧜‍♀️Day 27 of MerMay: Deep Sea Mermaid🧜‍♀️ I drew a little deep sea squid mermaid😊

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An anglerfish on the prowl - drawn with charcoal

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Zombie Worms Crave Bone. Zombie worms, aka Osedax worms, were first discovered living on whale bones on the seafloor in 2002. Since then, scientists have discovered four other species, all of which get their energy from bones.

Zombie worms don’t eat mineral bones directly; instead, they digest fats within the bone. However, their style of “eating” is quite different from ours because they don’t have a mouth or a stomach! They secrete an acid from their skin that dissolves bone, freeing up the fat and protein trapped inside. Then, symbiotic bacteria living in the worms’ bodies digest the fat and protein. How Osedax acquire nutrients from the bacteria isn’t known: they may simply digest the bacteria, or nutrients are somehow transferred to the worm.

More on zombie worms at the Smithsonian Ocean Portal.

Photo: Yoshihiro Fujiwara/JAMSTEC

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Helmet Jelly - Periphylla periphylla

The umbrella is usually higher than wide. It may reach a height of 35 cm and a diameter of 25cm. The tip is pointed or dome-shaped. The large, red or orange stomach occupies the upper part of the umbrella. The 12 thick, orange tentacles can be more than 50 cm long. There is no information about a polypoid stage.

Habitat:

This is a common deep sea species. At locations dominated by strong tidal currents, forcing water from 200 metres or more up towards the surface, they can be encountered at any depth. At some locations this phenomenon is highly seasonal. An example is Lurefjorden (Hordaland) where water from 200 metres depth is forced into the fjord through a shallow (20 metres) and narrow (200 metres) sill entrance. In april every year, a large number of helmet jellies comes with the tide. At at other locations, like Skarnsundet, in the Trondheim Fjord, you may find them at any time of the year. Here the entrance is more than 200 metres deep and much wider than in Lurefjorden, so most of the helmet jellies pass below the common scuba diver. The maximum recorded depth is 2700 metres.

Distribution:

The helmet jelly is a cosmopolitan and widespread in the Atlantic Ocean, except in the Arctic. The Trondheim Fjord seems to be north of the “official” distribution area, but the helmet jelly does not know that.

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Sea pigs, also called scotoplanes, are a peculiar type of deep-sea sea cucumber with legged locomotion. Its tube-like appendages operate like a hydraulic system: cavities within the skin inflate and deflate to move the “walking legs.” Often found in large groups of several hundred individuals, sea pigs tend to face in the same direction as they use the incoming current to sniff out their next meal. Though their preferred food source is whale carcass, freshly fallen from above, scotoplanes also forage in deep-sea mud for bits of decaying plant or animal material.

Photo: Maia Valenzuela

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Yup, definitely met this guy in one of my nightmares.

Deep-sea species like this dragonfish collected near Australia live in cold, dark waters and may go weeks or months between meals.

Credit: Dr. Julian Finn, Museum Victoria