Animals: Deep Sea Creatures

[Alex K.]

I want to give credit to one of the amazing artists who is doing this cutting edge photography. His name is Peter Batson and he has a fantastic site called www.exploretheabyss.com . What he is doing is showing us things which no humans have ever seen in all of history. some artists have powers to entertain and others have the power to open our minds to things we had no idea about. We at conceptart.org appreciate the work which the scientists and deep sea photographers are doing as it is they who are showing us things which we could previously only imagine.


Please credit artists and sources if you know who else has taken these images for us to see and share.


jason manley
www.conceptart.org




Just found this link (http://www.comp.utas.edu.au/students-nhm/baina/auv/fish/) on metafilter (http://www.metafilter.com). The fish are wickedly surreal:

[Fozzybar]

This is great!

Thank you, Alex! :thumbsup:

[franticflame]

These creep the #@$% out of me. Not to mention I had a tuna sandwich for lunch. Oh dear. :eek:

GREAT references!!!

I recently found some interesting sea life at Jeff's Nudibranch Site (http://www.divegallery.com/)

[Flip]

Very nice!
I had a look for more pictures of deep sea creatures and found that a lot of the photos seem to be from here:
http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/CreatureFeature.htm
(check out the photo library as well as the creature features)

I also found a few other sites with some good references.
A few pics here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/life/bestiary.html
and here:
http://library.thinkquest.org/4106
Bioluminescence photos:
http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/organism/photo.html
From Monterey Bay:
http://www.mbari.org/data/images_video/animals.htm
Vampire Squid:
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues96/may96/vampire_jpg.html

[Kasper_P]

I don't like the way theyr all looking at me...

Great stuff. Better get some creature started.

[Mr Man]

You seriously gotta checkout this www.fishbase.org
It has stuff about everyfish recorded (just about).
The database is Huge!!!!:eek:

[goran]

Alex K. -Than you very much man, this is great.

[Hunger_Artist]

I love deep sea fish.

http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/rattail2.JPG

http://www.brianskerry.com/images2/fish/oarfish.jpg

http://www.hboi.edu/gallery/photoarchive/display/3918-27.jpg


not technically fish, but still pretty darn cool

http://www.earthsky.com/shows/images/callouts/20010217.jpg

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/organism_images/lsl_livedeep_m008.jpg

[Muttonhead]

WHAT?!?!?! WTF are some of those things! I am flipping out!

Thanks a BUNCH for these. Me so happy.

[S.C. Watson]

...and they say we haven't found alien life yet... :nohope:

[indiana]

These things are brilliant...All you Veggies -Think again !
Thanks for the great links.

[Denart]

http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca/ftp/BIODIDAC/Renaud/RENA001P.jpg

this is how small they actually are! awwww...
http://mirrorimageorigin.collegepublisher.com/media/paper243/stills/78a1p891.jpg

http://www.divehouse.com.ar/bio/peces/peces1.jpg

look how the front tooth is going through the upper lip! :)
http://www.extremescience.com/images/viperfish.jpg

http://www.extremescience.com/images/rattail3.jpg

http://www.greengoblin.com/internal/corner/shark.jpg

http://www.abc.net.au/science/ocean/monsters/img/oct1.jpg

yum...>:D
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/brittlepen.jpg

this is called the "Dumbo Octopus!" hehe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/blueplanet/picpops/images/prog2_1.jpg

:D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/blueplanet/picpops/images/prog2_2.jpg

weird snail shell with horns n' all!
http://7art-screensavers.com/screenshots/sea-creatures/sea-shell.jpg

[MrFrost]

great references!!!

[N D Hill]

Here's my personal favorate, the giant squid (architeuthis dux). These things give me the creeps. Giant squid can reach sizes of up to sixty feet in length. Most of this length is made up of two 40 foot tenticles that it uses to sieze prey at a distance. They also have the largest eye in the animal kingdom as the eye can reach a diameter of up to 16 inches across. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any photos of an intact eye so you'll have to take my word for it.

This thread is awesome. Proof that reality is stranger than fiction.

http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/research/adc/img/arch.jpg

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/images/020726_squid.jpg

http://www.random-abstract.com/archives-gm/giant-squid-02.jpg

http://www.random-abstract.com/archives-gm/giant-squid-01.jpg

http://www.seacamsys.com/Scott-Giant%20Squid-1.jpg

http://leatherwoodonline.com/tassiestories/2004/squid/images/giantsquid05.jpg

Giant Squid Larva
http://www.niwa.co.nz/pubs/wa/10-1/news2_large.jpg

http://www.sermonaudio.com/newsimages/12728.jpg

http://www.coldbacon.com/pics/octopus.jpg


Colossal squid (mesonychoteuthis)
http://www.wcsscience.com/thegiant/squid.JPG

This is it's beak. Scientists believe this specimen is only a juvinille because beaks the size of footballs have been recovered in the stomachs of sperm whales.
http://www.wcsscience.com/thegiant/beak.JPG

A close-up of the clawed tenticles

http://zapatopi.net/cephnews/mesonychoteuthis.hooks.jpg

The very first specimen recovered.
http://starryskies.com/articles/dln/11-99/squid_mesonychoteuthis.gif

[egerie]

God's gift to concept artists. Wow. I think the most impressive one is the oar fish. Oh and that chimaera_pup.jpg is pretty neat. blown away... :blah:

[jester]

I usually like squid (life and on my plate) but seeing those last pics I get the impression that they'll soon strike back and humans fit in their prey scheme...

:rolleyes:

Great references!

Jester

[Fozzybar]

The creature on the first pix denart posted are called "cookie cutters"...it's a little shark species, which lurks in the dark of the deep sea for big fishes, just to dart off on the "prey" to bite off a chunk of flesh...the wound you can see on the victims looks like a cookie, that's why they are called "cookie cutter"...fishermen even found a goblin-shark with a complete hole in its tail fin...just like blanked out with a machine...

You can find many of this cookie-shaped marks in deep-sea cables...people didn't know for a long time why there were such marks in the cables...

[N D Hill]

Actually, I think those were some sort of hagfish or some other primative jawless fish. They look more suited for parasytic feeding or scavenging. Cookie-cutters have much more descernable jaws and have dogfish-like bodies.

http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc98/8_1_98/shark2.jpg

http://www.pawpaw.k12.mi.us/cedarstreet/0kidkorner/sh/pictures/sh12.jpg

http://www.shrewsbury-ma.gov/schools/central/curriculum/ELEMENTARY/SCIENCE/sharks/cookie-cutter/Images/cookiecutter.gif

[LaPalida]

Image Quest 3D (http://www.imagequest3d.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio3/imageFolio.cgi?img=&search=deepwater&cat=aquatic&bool=and) link to deepwater photography

[N D Hill]

Another cool thing about a lot of deep sea animas as that they have the ability produce their own light through bioluminescence. They use specialized organs called photophores to generate light that can be used lure prey or to signal the opposite sex for mating. I remember watching an old national geographic special where scientists were saying how supprised they were to discover how important sight is at those extreme depths with severe low-light. Other fish species that live in different low-light conditions such as in caves have lost the ability of sight all together and either have no eyes or useless/atrophied eyes. Most deep sea animals have huge highly developed eyes which you can see in this thread.

Anyway, on with the pictures.

http://coexploration.org/bbsr/classroombats/assets/images/headlite.gif

http://coexploration.org/bbsr/classroombats/assets/images/redjelly.gif

http://coexploration.org/bbsr/classroombats/assets/images/ptrpd.gif

http://coexploration.org/bbsr/classroombats/assets/images/combjellygif.gif

http://www.hboi.edu/gallery/photoarchive/display/2467-21.jpg

http://www.hboi.edu/gallery/photoarchive/display/2467-23.jpg

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BA/drug_testers/images/aequorea2.jpg

http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/organism/pictures/aglantha.jpg

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/Earthscience/Oceanography/OceanWater/Optics/jellyfish.jpg

[rommel543]

The creature on the first pix denart posted are called "cookie cutters"...it's a little shark species, which lurks in the dark of the deep sea for big fishes, just to dart off on the "prey" to bite off a chunk of flesh...the wound you can see on the victims looks like a cookie, that's why they are called "cookie cutter"...fishermen even found a goblin-shark with a complete hole in its tail fin...just like blanked out with a machine...

You can find many of this cookie-shaped marks in deep-sea cables...people didn't know for a long time why there were such marks in the cables...


I'm in Manitoba Canada. We have a similar creature here. We call them Lamprey. They usually attach themselves to bottom feeders like suckers an Northern Pike (jackfish). Although they don't get quite that big

[tastiger]

Here's a site with amazing photography in a general sense, including these. Tasmania has had four giant squid carcasses wash ashore in recent years:

http://www.leatherwoodonline.com/tasmania/2004/squid/images/giantsquid04.jpg

Found here

http://www.leatherwoodonline.com/tasmania/2004/squid/index.htm

And this bizarre squid photograph, apparently self-triggered at a depth of 200 metres off Heard Island in the sub-Antarctic earlier this year.

http://www.leatherwoodonline.com/antarctica/images/squid_hi.jpg

Found here:

http://www.leatherwoodonline.com/antarctica/2004/heard04/index.php

[insane visions]

these are just too fucking DOPEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! mannnnnnnnnnnnn.............ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhh....GASP!

[Jason Manley]

this thread is amazing. It has literally circulated around the internet..all over the world. I hope more pics keep coming in. What great inspiration for creature designs...yum!

If you are a visitor from another site, please feel free to join the forums and participate in art and discussion!

Welcome all!


Jason

[Fozzybar]

Seems that there is a need to inform about the deep sea...

Very few people know that the deep sea is a gigantic area where nearly everything is still to explore...

some facts to understand what amazing treasures of nature there can be found:

- 70% of our planets surface is covered by water...
- the average depth of the oceans is about 4000 meters (!)
- sunlight is going through down to 300 meters, beneath this border it's absolutely dark (only submersibles are able to get that deep...and there are very few of them at all...ridiculously few compared to the area)
- deep sea makes more than 50% of the habitat on earth

An oceanographer once said "with our methods we even wouldn't have found elephants on land"...

There is so MUCH to explore down there...don't be surprised if there will be really amazing creatures or anything else found in future...

link:
It's a german site, but very good for understanding the deep sea...there are also pictures of creatures and descriptions to them...

http://www.die-tiefsee.de

Enjoy!

[Hunger_Artist]

I hope these are new to some of you.. they were stored away in one of my bookmark folders..

http://www.imagequest3d.com/catalogue/deepsea/images/l025_jpg.jpg

http://www.imagequest3d.com/catalogue/deepsea/images/l007_jpg.jpg

http://www.imagequest3d.com/catalogue/deepsea/images/l001_jpg.jpg

http://www.imagequest3d.com/catalogue/deepsea/images/l043.jpg

more here: http://www.imagequest3d.com/catalogue/deepsea/


this thread is beyond awesome.. keep posting images!

[S.C. Watson]

Fantastic photos people - keep posting!

It's amazing how this is often the most popular thread on CA - check the who's online and usually there are more people in here than anywhere else :teeth:

Cheers,
~Oreg.

[Forge]

ok, here is my contribution :

those ones are eggs ! :

http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/snailforest.jpg

http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/bigscale.JPG

http://people.whitman.edu/%7Eyancey/evermanella.jpg

http://people.whitman.edu/%7Eyancey/Teuthowenia.jpg

http://people.whitman.edu/%7Eyancey/Bathysaurus1.jpg

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/organism_images/lsl_deep_m073.jpg

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/living_species/organism_images/lsl_deep_m085.jpg

[lovelinefan]

Possibly the greatest is the Vampire Squid from Hell Vampyroteuthis infernalis

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/OddPics/Images/Vsquid.jpg
http://www.earlham.edu/~warrech/vampiresquid2.jpg (a behavior where the squid folds back its connected tentacles over its body, exposing the POINTED SPIKES (not suckers) that line their underside)

"William Beebe (1926) described V. infernalis as "a very small but terrible octopus, black as night with ivory white jaws and blood red eyes" "

[lovelinefan]

I'm in Manitoba Canada. We have a similar creature here. We call them Lamprey. They usually attach themselves to bottom feeders like suckers an Northern Pike (jackfish). Although they don't get quite that big

More random info...
Lampreys, Hagfish, and those "cookie cutter" sharks are all part of the group (or superphylum, but not really formally) agnatha, wich contains the jawless fish. Thats right sports fans, jawless. They only have teeth around an open mouth, that they can use to spear into a prey, and tear off chunks by writhing about. Lampreys also create copeous amounts of slime, which coats their bodies, allowing them to tie a knot with their bodies down by their tail, and wrigle it up to the mouth, using this to push the mouth away from the prey and therefore tear off a hunk. Crazy, huh?

[Fozzybar]

Random info #3 :):

The male of some deep sea Angler Fishes bite the female in the bottom part of their bodies...they hang there for a long time and slowly they adhere to the females body until they are totally a part of the females organism and living as a parasite...

I love the deep sea and its weird occurrences... :^^:

[behemot5]

tried to find some deepfish website but i never found pics like these ones....really awfull....great

[Scythemantis]

Insects, parasites, and abyssal sea creatures are the three aspects of nature I find more fascinating and awesome than ANYTHING in scifi/fantasy. To me, these kinds of creatures are single-handedly responsible for making the real world as exciting as fiction.

Hagfish are one of my favorite animals...yep, one of the last surviving jawless fish. What makes them really special is their slime, though. They produce more slime than ANY other animal, and it's one of nature's most durable adhesives. It can instantly generate a whole cloud of the stuff to suffocate predators or prey alike. To clear its own slime from its body and face, it ties itself in a knot and slides the knot rapidly up and down its body while sneezing. It's the ONLY fish that can sneeze, and the only vertebrate that can tie itself in a knot.

I don't want to look like I'm "advertizing" or anything, but I have tons of facts on deep-sea fish (and other sea creatures) in the nature section of my website (http://www.bogleech.com).

And yeah, not only are male deep-sea anglers symbiotic on the females but they undergo a complete transformation. All of their non-reproductive organs degenerate as the flesh around their jaws fuses to the skin of the female's stomach. Some unlucky males have actually been found fused to the wrong species of female. This is very, very rare though.

The third pic in the first post (I don't know if anyone's said this already, I'm afraid I skimmed) is a long-nosed chimaera. They sweep their snout over the seafloor in search of tasty crustaceans and molluscs buried in the sand. They attract their mades with an odd drumming sound that certain predators instinctively home-in one. Oh, and that spike on the backfin is venomous. I have the same photo on my sea-life page, it really gets around. I've seen it on so many websites I'm not certain where it originated anymore (various sites seem to present it as one of their own catches)

The pic immediately after is is a blob sculpin, also called a fathead or blobfish. You'll get some VERY interesting photos if you check google image search. They just look that way because they sag when taken onto land, they have more normal fishy faces in the water.

Incidentally, you might notice a lot of black slime on deep-sea specimens. That comes from fish called Slickheads. They're very common, and any deep-sea haul brings up tons of the things. The black stuff is their outer skin, which gets all over everything because it's very sticky and designed to come off...slickheads actually tear it off from themselves and eat it once various tiny animals get trapped in it.

[LaPalida]

Norbert Wu is the guy that takes alot of those amazing photos of deep sea fish. He has his own site called http://www.norbertwustock.com (http://www.norbertwustock.com/) it has alot of cool photographs.

[LaPalida]

OMG COOL LINK CLICK HERE !!!! www.fishbase.org (http://www.fishbase.org) :wink:

[Dudy]

Look what we found 10 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at a depth of 1700 meters!

http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/674a0235a7445f8fd4f194ea1a6e65fc.jpg
Tatui1.jpg (http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/674a0235a7445f8fd4f194ea1a6e65fc.jpg)

http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/4c88283326e022471b0847698956df0c.jpg
Tatui2.jpg (http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/4c88283326e022471b0847698956df0c.jpg)

[S.C. Watson]

Is That A Sandcrab????

[Alex K.]

Holy cow, Dudy. That's amazing, whatever it is! Please tell me there's more photos of that thing.

[Scythemantis]

Dear god, you CAUGHT one!? What did you do with it??? I'd preserve it...but then, something like that would be my prized possession!

That's a giant marine isopod. Some of you may know isopods better by names such as "woodlice", "sowbugs" or "pillbugs". They're actually crustaceans.

[S.C. Watson]

My kids and I looked that thing up in one of our marine biology books. Normally they are *much* smaller (like tiny). I had no idea that they could get so large.

On the one hand, we kind of hope you released it after photographing it because it is so cool :angel:

But on the other hand I really hope you mounted that sucker in a show case in the living room! :devil:

That thing is just awesome!

Cheers,
~Shane

[Hunger_Artist]

DUDY, that is coooool


I cant believe weve started a deep sea thread and nobodys posted pictures of hydrothermal vents..


http://www.ifremer.fr/2ishvb/images/ouverture.jpg

http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/forum/colwell/rc03_usjapan/img011.jpg

they are amazing places.. its cool to see the kind of life that evolves
Im sure someone knows a link to some better pics..

[Dudy]

http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/8439535a2292bf80913d8f35a0a50a76.jpg
Caranguejo.jpg (http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/8439535a2292bf80913d8f35a0a50a76.jpg)

http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/52485f739f376b27495e1e1c9607c97c.jpg
Tatui e Caranguejo 01.jpg (http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/52485f739f376b27495e1e1c9607c97c.jpg)

http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/f62978c5aac4516ce8b4dc3b42694f73.jpg
Tatui e Caranguejo 02.jpg (http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/f62978c5aac4516ce8b4dc3b42694f73.jpg)

http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/0769103cf865bf200487da846100216b.jpg
Tatui e Caranguejo 03.jpg (http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/0769103cf865bf200487da846100216b.jpg)

http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/3bc44a1daad269cdc109cc7f0299b0da.jpg
Tatui.jpg (http://image.badongo.com/0279753080177219/2005-12-14/org/3bc44a1daad269cdc109cc7f0299b0da.jpg)

[Fozzybar]

HA!

SOMEthing's down there!!! :^^:

[auden100]

This thread is great. Those tube worms near thermal vents always make me hungry. :madchef:

[LaPalida]

There is a book that I have and it's on deepsea creatures. It's called "Creatures of the Deep" ISBN 1-55209-340-9 (in case you wanted to buy it). It's a great read and has some nice pictures.

[Joeslucher]

http://www.photo.net/philg/new-zealand/barrier-reef-sea-slug.jpg

[elfsh]

Thought I had to chip in with http://www.earthwindow.com/mola.html (Not the coolest lookin fish but alot of angles and such.)

[Wolf]

I once did a report on bioluminescence creatures (the ones that "light up")...found some amazing pictures.

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/hughes2001/acct/msoto/images/shrimp.jpg

My favorite of all time. It's soo cute. ^^ And the printer I used had that photo-paper quality, so the pictures came out amazing. The deep sea world just fascinates me. There's so much we don't know about it...the last frontier. I'd love to be able to see these things face-to-face.

You know, they have never caught an adult Giant squid alive? Plenty of dead ones, but none living. I wonder why? Maybe those things are smarter then we think.

[Dax]

You know, they have never caught an adult Giant squid alive? Plenty of dead ones, but none living. I wonder why? Maybe those things are smarter then we think.

Nah, it's because they live in the deep. Imagine how much atmospheric pressure they live in. They would be physically unable to come up near the surface, where the pressure is substantially less. It would be like us going into space. The lack of pressure would kills us, so we don't go (without protection). The giant squid doesn't come up and then dies, it first dies and floats up.

Now; imagine all the giant creatures that die and sink to the bottom, so we NEVER see them. Who knows what other giant creatures are down there? Massive whales? Giant Sea Snakes and Eels? I bet you the loch ness monster actually exists (just not in Loch Ness lake, but it's just a giant Eel living with thousands of other creatures in the bottom of the ocean.)

[LaPalida]

Nobert Wu just released a new book on underwater/deepwater life. He takes some really awesome photos. You guys should check it out.

http://www.norbertwu.com/books/index.html

[scarletnocturne]

holy crap dude! :O some of those are seriously wicked looking.....sweet! :}

[Khuratokh]

Nah, it's because they live in the deep. Imagine how much atmospheric pressure they live in. They would be physically unable to come up near the surface, where the pressure is substantially less. It would be like us going into space. The lack of pressure would kills us, so we don't go (without protection). The giant squid doesn't come up and then dies, it first dies and floats up.

Actually, sometimes Giant squid do come to the surface.
Giant squid are made of mostly water, so pressure doesn't affect them as much as it would fish. You have to realise that giant squid have such enormous eyes, in order to hunt their prey. Most creatures down there rely on other senses, but squids are very visually orientated. Deep sea squid are very sensitive to light, using what little sunlight that still filters through from the surface. If a deep sea squid would surface during the day, the natural light would blind it! Some giant squid occassionally surface during the night, when it's dark enough for them to see normally. Here they hunt for fish they normally couldn't get at. There have also been reports of baleign whales that have been chewed on during the night.

It is also not uncommon for large squid to surface, because they're lost. Large squid live everywhere where the water is deep and cold enough, and their staple diet can be found. Where the cold ocean stream meets the warmer one, the squid get disorientated and so end up at the surface. Dazed and confused, they make easy prey for a variety of large predators.

Just one other thing: Whales are mammals and therefore have to spend sometime at the surface, so I doubt there are any larger whales lurking down there, that aren't already known to science. There is however a small type of dolphin that has tusks of a sort. although it spends most of it's life at the surface, it's rarely seen! All because of it's low

[Khuratokh]

(continuation of last message) All because of it's small population and the vastness of the sea.

[Kent Caldwell]

What an awesome thread! Deepsea fish are by far my favorite animals- I've done some research on them but never seem to find more than a handful of decent pictures, and well illustrated books on them are somewhat hard to find (for obvious reason.) These photos are delightfully fresh and surreal, definitely inspiring!

I did an ink illustration of the bottom of the sea floor a year or so ago which can be found here if anyone's interested (I don't want to post the pic since its not a photoref)-

http://www.deviantart.com/view/5857621/

[CoNTRoL]

http://www.marinebio.com/upload/33/fi68f80jk.jpg
http://www.montymontyart.com/deep_sea_fish.jpg
http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/ocean/anglerfish.jpeg
http://warrensburg.k12.mo.us/ocean/gulper.jpeg
http://collections.ucsd.edu/content/13/images/WuAngler200.jpg
http://www.bfa-fish.de/ish/cruises/wh/wh244/0260_deepseafish4_lr.jpg
http://www.niwa.co.nz/ncabb/abb/2003-05/images/index5_large.jpg
http://www.allthesea.com/img/angler-fish-01.jpg
http://img149.exs.cx/img149/9655/c28dz.gif
http://img149.exs.cx/img149/3033/anglerfish1ws.jpg
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/img/life/atolla.jpg

[asianguy971]

wow this is a nice thread u guys have here
im new to this site, just found it when searching the net
some nice fishies here hehe :tihi: talking about fish and art check out my piece...called "Fishhorn" yah i draw too :P
its my featured deviation on my DA page

http://asianguy971.deviantart.com/

check it if u want :P :needle:

[ShadowAX]

Hello~ I am new member from Hong Kong..
In a certain extent,those deep sea 's creatures 's outlook are really terrible..
I like those can found in the market rather these alien-looked creatures 8)

[CoNTRoL]

http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/best/images/CyphocarisAmphipod.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/biolumin/images/TeuthoweniaSide.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/benthic/images/VulcanoctopusBody3936.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/benthic/images/VulcanoctopusEyeParasite3936.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/benthic/images/Pycnogonid3927.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/best/images/BabyPortugueseMofW.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/best/images/AmphipodSwarmers3934.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/benthic/images/munida2LR.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/best/images/PleurobrachiaYellowBeautiful.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/best/images/ThermarcesFrontHalf3938.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/plankton/images/Cavoline.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/benthic/images/FaceHugger3937LR.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/fishes/images/SnipeWholeLR.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/artistic/images/MunidaSwarm.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/best/images/Pleurobrachia1.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/benthic/images/BasketstarWholeLR.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/biolumin/images/WartyAnglerfishGlowLR.jpg
http://exploretheabyss.com/photo/gallery/gallery/biolumin/images/Bathysaurus3940.jpg

[Jeremy]

hello everyone, I only recently joined this forum and this is my first post. I can't believe how amazing these photos are! I'm so inspired, and by nature! I've never done one of these before because I was always afraid of the whole "registration" deal, but I'm glad I joined because this place is amazing and this thread makes love this place. Please check out my website (it still needs a little work) and give me some feedback.

[Target]

Control, where the hell did you find those picks? Sweet Jesus, they are amazing. Crazy. I don't know about you guys, but I'm not about to go swimming anytime time soon...sh-ite...creepy as all get out...not getting my toes eaten by that...

[StrongGirl]

New to this place so um, hi everyone!
I really want to go deep sea diving now. Some of those fish are absolutely amazing.

Oops hehe alrady a pic of that one...lmao...gonna go find another...geez first post and already ya know I'm blond

Ok think I got one:
http://www.deepseaimages.com/dsilibrary/data/928/13SAYP0698.jpg

[bowman69]

I once did a report on bioluminescence creatures (the ones that "light up")...found some amazing pictures.

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/hughes2001/acct/msoto/images/shrimp.jpg

My favorite of all time. It's soo cute. ^^ And the printer I used had that photo-paper quality, so the pictures came out amazing. The deep sea world just fascinates me. There's so much we don't know about it...the last frontier. I'd love to be able to see these things face-to-face.

You know, they have never caught an adult Giant squid alive? Plenty of dead ones, but none living. I wonder why? Maybe those things are smarter then we think.

Wolf im replying to your qote about a possiblity of intelligent giant squid. You stated that because we haven't caught any alive they are possibly intelligent. Perhaps they commit suicide before capture or they live at such depths that when they surface they cannot sustain the low pressure.

[look]

Not sure if Jellyfish belong to deep sea creatures, but they are just soo beautiful I figured I'd share this:
http://imagesearch.yahoo.co.kr/isurf/3196/3400/20146/0000130651.html

It's a korean page, but all you need is to click the link on top of the image thumbnails to see more.

and an octopus gallery: http://imagesearch.yahoo.co.kr/isurf/3196/3400/17442/0000626464.html

[CoNTRoL]

http://img225.echo.cx/img225/7792/lgsm00742et.th.jpg (http://img225.echo.cx/my.php?image=lgsm00742et.jpg)
http://img225.echo.cx/img225/5295/anglerfish4zo.th.jpg (http://img225.echo.cx/my.php?image=anglerfish4zo.jpg)
http://www.marbef.org/outreach/images/halicreas_sp.jpg
Armor Plated Snail?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/kids/2003/12/images/seasnail-big.jpg
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/ocean/images/02_ecosystems/galleries/02_seafloor/7227_dandelions.jpg
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent/ocean/images/02_ecosystems/galleries/02_seafloor/cf_cucumber.jpg
http://www.visualsunlimited.com/images/watermarked/390/390007.jpg
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/dec/squid/marbi_hanging.jpg
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/dec/squid/gulfsquid.jpg

[Ebookslist]

Waw!!!!!!!!

[Hunger_Artist]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/kids/2003/12/images/seasnail-big.jpg
Armor Plated Snail?


I remember hearing about these thinking it was the coolest thing ever, an animal that uses metal from its environment to build biological armor for itself.

it makes you wonder, if metals were more abundant on the earths surface, if more common animals would develop metallic hides to protect themselves.

/rant

[coke]

Hi I am New hear and if anyone wants to know my favorite fish is the deep sea gulper eel /m\

hey how do you post photos

[CoNTRoL]

lol coke. i wish i cared. yea gulper is cool but after a car accident seven shots and a few hits of the guess you know what im thinking. why dont i call my girlfriend and laugh it up.

peace out.

sorry this is all i contribute to ConceptArt.Org...nonsense.

[Tizzle]

Hey Everyone

Was just trawling the web and came across this thread - cool. If you like the stuff on here check out the SERPENT project - loads of images and videos about deep sea beasties - worth a look. www.serpentproject.com. I guess I might be biased though as I work for this project!

tizzle

[dindon]

I was actually looking around the web for images of deep sea fish to help with my suggestion's for someone's WIP... I stumbled across this! This is a really cool thread, i love deep sea fish. It really is an alien world down there. Hopefully man's pollution hasn't totally ruined this place.

[Andruth]

Hi, i'm new to these forums.

Cool! Out of every animal on earth (well, life form) sea creaturess were really the only ones to amaze me, especially the deep sea ones, except for some certain insects.

Also, the lock ness monster, although it may or may not be real, if it was, would be this type of dinosaur (i forget the name) kinda like a long neck that had fins instead of legs and lived in the water. I think there have been reports of people seeing them, and they may still exist, considering there was this one fish caught three or four times in the past years that was thought to be extinct for millions of years.

The picture that amazed me most was the third one, with the long nose type thing. What type of creature is that? And just to point this out, although it's off topic, i saw this insect long ago. It was a couple years ago, so my memory isn't correct, but from what i remember....
It had 4 legs, plus 2 limbs with claws like crabs. Each of it's legs had mini claws at the end. It was white, and had big eyes sticking out. It's head stuck out of it's body about half an inch. it was about 2 inches long, not including claws, 1 and a half inches tall, including legs and head. It's eyes were sticking out at the top of it's head. It was very slow, but i left it once and came back a while later and it had climbed up two long blades of grass, 2 legs on one blade, two on the other. so it was good at climbing. I have only seen this once in my life, and have never seen any pictures, nor have i told anyone about it who knew what it was. If anyone can clue me in to what i saw, i would be very thankfull.

[Damster]

http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/Teuthowenia.jpg

http://alexkorol.home.comcast.net/references/fish/viperfish.jpg

[trk]

Amazing pics!

Another cool link to 'The Deep-Sea Hall of Fame'
http://www.deepoceanquest.com/outreach.html

"These are the creatures, objects, and phenomena that give the deep its reputation as an alien world on our own planet. Without them, the ocean frontier would be a much less interesting place. "

[Qitsune]

This thing doesn't live in deep water, but it's odd as heck, one of these is actually a colony of specialised tiny creatures (some specialized in digesting, others in reproduction etc)

They also look quite strange
http://www.californiabiota.com/cabiota/by_the_wind_sailor.htm

[Capprotti]

This is a great source of inspiration and reference. Here's a link to a pretty sweet site with pretty large library of deep sea images. Hope they're of some use to someone.

http://www.deepseaimages.com/

[Tizzle]

Thought this might be of interest if any of you are out there taking photos or footage: http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/GDD/DEEPSEAS/symp_pages/sympimagecomp.html

[Koen]

Imagine what is out there, only a few fishes are known to humans the rest is yet to be discovered.

[Isric]

holy crap, a freakin whale skull:

http://chelifer.com/whale/whale2a.jpg

http://chelifer.com/whale/whale3aa.jpg

[hyde41]

Whoa these kick soo much ass. The deep sea...the greatest mystery of em all.

I saw this one vid on spikedhumor.com and they showed an octopus that was SO camoflouged that you wouldn't be able to see it if it was in front of you! These creatures/beings are just too amazing.

Oh here's the link! **warning ...spikedhumor has a lot of racist crap...just watch the octopus only! haha

you need windows media player to view it.

http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/1174/Invisible_Sea_Creature.html

[rasdasa]

Alex, great refrence, thank you.

ras

[CoNTRoL]

http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/dragonfish.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/viperfish.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/pearleye&headlight.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/bigscale.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/blacksmelt.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/snaggletooth.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/barreleye.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/barreleyetop.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/viper2.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/viperjaw2.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/Cirratefin.JPG
http://people.whitman.edu/~yancey/cirrateoctopod.JPG

[Isric]

http://www.mbari.org/midwater/Tiburonia/davidson.jpg

[ivy'sgrandkid]

wow owo wow these things lok amazing i didnt know such things were in the water

[forum803]

Half of them look like something out of a nightmare...that or some of your illustrations..haha

[Scorpius]

This thread is unbelievable, as are deep sea creatures.

Here's my contribution:
http://norb.homedns.org/deepsea/originals/6207.JPG
http://norb.homedns.org/deepsea/originals/6215.JPG
http://static.stileproject.com/rnd/img/flaf37.jpg

That is one incredible sized horse shoe!

[Hunger_Artist]

1 million +hits on this topic!!1111

lets keep it rollin!
http://www.eco-divers.com/peterlange/15.jpg

[zenxan]

nice pictures. never gonna go swimmin again.

[AllanYee]

Did somebody knows what kind of fish is this
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e151/barracuda669/x1padjo0uco2h2w_bxd9i7doghdmej2uhx4.jpg

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e151/barracuda669/pic2.jpg

This fish was speared in Portugal at 6 feet underwater, and nobody knows what kind of fish is this thing.
Can somebody help me??????

Thanks...

[Hunger_Artist]

Allan, looks to be related possibly to a longnose lancetfish, Alepisaurus ferox

I remember seeing these fish all the time in the Portugese fishmarkets with their creepy yellow eyese and crazy teeth.

http://www.fishbase.org/images/species/Alfer_u0.jpg

[AllanYee]

Thanks a lot Hunter, now im satisfied my doubt.
Thanks a lot...........

Yours sincerely
Allan Yee

[kait]

greatest topic ever :rendered:

isopod massive

http://static.flickr.com/1/380353_028542ead3.jpg

http://www.allensalkin.com/images/753abdb7de4f5e5595a08e0c33afe952-317.jpg

http://www.uj.ac.za/zoology/images/gallery/!Tongue%20replacement%20isopod.jpg

[tlc]

Now, look at this:

2114

2115

Is it real, or is it a really good piece of work in Photoshop?

[BlackLightMike]

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/viewer/viewer.html?http://www.thefeejeemermaid.com/gallery1.htmluxfiathttp://www.thefeejeemermaid.com/oldmerman.jpgluxfiat125luxfiat187

It is the work of an artist named Juan Cabana... I found this link last year when researching images for a Fiji Mermaid prop I was building. Cool stuff there!

[kait]

holy crap...it cant be real. :x

edit. heh i was right : )

[trk]

Check this out!! Some more wicked deep sea pics!
www.deepseaphotography.com

This is a strange world of bizarre deep-sea fish, giant squid and glow-in-the-dark bioluminescence

[TheDancingEmu]

i've had this website saved on my computer for a while, so i figured i would pay you guys back for postin all those pics by posting one i found: http://www.underwatertimes.com/news2/giant_stingray.jpg
sorry i cant put a picture up, i dont know how.

its not a deep sea fish, but it is a contender for the title of largest freshwater fish.

[TheDancingEmu]

More random info...
Lampreys, Hagfish, and those "cookie cutter" sharks are all part of the group (or superphylum, but not really formally) agnatha, wich contains the jawless fish. Thats right sports fans, jawless. They only have teeth around an open mouth, that they can use to spear into a prey, and tear off chunks by writhing about. Lampreys also create copeous amounts of slime, which coats their bodies, allowing them to tie a knot with their bodies down by their tail, and wrigle it up to the mouth, using this to push the mouth away from the prey and therefore tear off a hunk. Crazy, huh?

hey, i hope im not being redundant and saying something someone's already said, but sharks are not agnathans, because they have jaws. as far as i know, lampreys and hagfish are the only remaining agnathans.

[SeanO]

Yeah- the agnathans used to rule the sea, back in the day. However, when jawed fishes came along, they were slowly wiped out. I think sturgeons are also part of this group, but I'm not sure.
Awesome thread! This is the most comprehensive deep sea photography archive I've ever seen.

[TheDancingEmu]

no, sturgeons are not agnathans. they are very ancient, but they do have jaws. lampreys and hagfish are literally the only remaining jawless fish.

[MU.GT-R]

Woow,amazing!!

[MU.GT-R]

Some horseshoe crab pic here:blahblah:

[specialpeopleunite]

Hey there, I'm a newbie, but I'm already loving the site. I am actually working on a speech on deep sea creatures for my speech club, so if you have any funky facts, informative sites or cool pics, it would be awesome if you let me know. Course I will be checking up on this place too:-) Also, I will be comparing these guys to aliens. So if you come across a pic of a fish that looks like a certain alien, or vice versa, that would be even more helpful.

[Zwickel]

oh god, holy sh!!!
Those are crazy, but so magnificent, I'm speechless.

[Heat]

i still cant get over cuttlefish and how complex they are

this pic is from wikipedia just search for cuttlefish and you will find this amazing photograph


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Georgia_Aquarium_-_Cuttlefish_Jan_2006.jpg

[SalOnimaruRem]

Super saweet man i hope you find a dragon or sumting close to it cuz i really want to see sumting like that really no kidding!!!

[Habilis13]

B is for Boys


Bathed beneath brackish beaches.
Barnacles, bivalves, boys- Bloop, Bloop.....

Beaten back by boiling broom.
Batfish, brain coral, bouncing baby boys - Blurp, Blurp......

Beyond breathes beautiful blow.
Below bespeckled birds, bloated blimps, blithe balloons.
Beluga, blowfish, bad boys- Bloopity- Bloop......

Blue bodies bob,
Become briny bouillon broth.
Bass, benthic-foraminifera, Buoy-o-Buoy- Blurpity- Blurp.......






/Users/DOGGBONE/Desktop/ALEXFISHINGRODPOETRY.jpg

[Halifax]

Oh god. I've always had an obsession with deep sea creatures, what amazing photographs! I would love to see some of that in person, unfortunaly, it would probably cause be to have an epileptic siezure and die.

[Tizzle]

...Course I will be checking up on this place too:-) Also, I will be comparing these guys to aliens. So if you come across a pic of a fish that looks like a certain alien, or vice versa, that would be even more helpful.

Hello!

I realise you might have already done your speech but if you are still looking for deep-sea beasties that look like aliens you might want to look here (http://www.serpentproject.com/assets/images/image%20comp%203/image%20comp%203.swf) third image down in the first column is an electron microscope image of the head of an annelid worm from a hydrothermal vent. Looks like a contender for a Dr Who baddie.

[Beans 24:7]

sweet mama look at these!!;)


http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.extremescience.com/images/rattail3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php%3Ft%3D19383&h=461&w=565&sz=83&tbnid=XM-4GVzu9i1NFM:&tbnh=109&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddeep%2Bsea%2Bcreatures&start=1&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=1
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/tv/blueplanet/picpops/images/prog2_1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://planktonforum.org/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D4041%26sid%3Df4ef32326633bf8cf 8a71beef652c9d6&h=300&w=400&sz=22&hl=en&start=6&tbnid=NS6vGeOaCwhxpM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddeep%2Bsea%2Bcreatures%26svnum%3D10%2 6hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address%26rlz%3D1I7ADBR%26sa%3DN

look its "Dumbo"

:bow: all praise Dumbo

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.imagequest3d.com/pages/current/pictureoftheweek/deepseaangler/l006_jpg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t31825.html&h=287&w=425&sz=28&hl=en&start=32&tbnid=Yy96Ew4Z01vHfM:&tbnh=85&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddeep%2Bsea%2Bcreatures%26start%3D20%2 6ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.micr osoft:en-us:IE-Address%26rlz%3D1I7ADBR%26sa%3DN

i think this one is related to michel jackson:D

[Isric]

http://science.readigg.com/description/16137.html

[bailong_1990]

well since were on the subject of deep sea animals...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Bathynomus_giganteus.jpg

[sfarma piatra]

I was at Zoo and I made a movie http://funzone.binarythunder.com/view/701/tigers-in-jacuzzi/

[kait]

not very deep, but still creepy.
http://www.sportsmanlogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/catfish1.jpg

[grenogs]

wow, this is a great thread

[waronmars]

Awesome awesome photos of reef creatures


http://www.divegallery.com/

[Sonaj]

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[chriskot]

YES! I did not know there was a thread like this! Some contributions are in order.

The Yeti Crab:
http://www.truthforce.info/images/Yeti%20Crab.jpg

The "Mystery Mollusk" (only ever been seen twice):
http://www.mbari.org/twenty/images/biodiversity/mystery%20mollusk-2-sml.jpg

The Coconut Octopus - The octopus equivalent of the hermit crab:
http://www.scuba-equipment-usa.com/marine/JAN07/images/Octopus_marginatus.jpg

An Oarfish, because previous pictures posted of them have all since disappeared:
http://976baja.com/images/Oarfish4041.jpg

And a brief demonstration of why cuttlefish are awesome beyond words:
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[Junck]

So creepy. Hard to believe stuff that outrageous exists. Nature sure has an imagination!

[HAJiME]

Giant Isopods are worth checking out. It's basically a huge (couple of feet I think?) woodlice that lives in the sea.

And some smaller species of isopod that attach themselves to the tongue of a fish, eat the tongue away to it's stump and replace it with their body to steal the fish's food. http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04etta/background/isopods/media/parasitic_isopod_600.jpg

[LORD M]

Gulper eel.
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/gulper-eel-15579-sw.jpg
Copepods:
http://invertebrates.si.edu/copepod/images/Alteutha%20potter%20org.JPG
http://invertebrates.si.edu/copepod/images/Ceratonotus%20steiningeri%20org.JPG
Lamprey, jawless "fish".
http://www.english-nature.org.uk/lifeinukrivers/species/species_images/lamprey5.jpg
http://www.english-nature.org.uk/lifeinukrivers/species/species_images/lamprey8.jpg
Lancelet (Cephalochordata)
http://comenius.susqu.edu/bi/202/Animals/DEUTEROSTOMES/cephalochordata/uwinnipeg-Lancelet.jpg
http://comenius.susqu.edu/bi/202/Animals/DEUTEROSTOMES/cephalochordata/amphioxis2.gif
Vampire Squid
http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/81/38/0000038138_20070301141656.jpg
q5ZQH2Uzpew
Christmas tree worms
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Spirobrancheus_giganteus.jpg
Various goodies
http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~grafish/fb_u_bathy02.jpg
Phronima sedentaria (it lives inside a salp)
http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2008/marzo/25/_Img/1941558_0.jpg
A salp (Tunicate)
http://www.rnrscuba.net/Nekton2006/Tunicate020.jpg
http://www.bethel.edu/~johgre/bio114d/images/Lower%20Verts/qTunicateDia.jpg
Hagfish
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-zUmEsEmgRM/R1na4Sp_DEI/AAAAAAAABHE/U1y8QFNhQG4/s1600/Hagfish.jpg
Pistol Shrimp
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Mantis Shrimp
http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Odontodactylus_scyllarus/Odontodactylus.jpg
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/peacock-shrimp-laman-961455-xl.jpg
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Hope this will be of use. :)

[biglu]

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/translucent-leaf-scorpionfish-newbert-1145418-ga.jpg http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/translucent-cowfish-newbert-1145302-ga.jpg

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/translucent-jellyfish-arndt-1151407-ga.jpg http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/translucent-sea-butterfly-arndt-1151403-ga.jpg

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/translucent-hydromedusae-arndt-1151409-ga.jpg YUmUUV0SSwA

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/translucent-jelly-larva-arndt-1151411-ga.jpg http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/Content/translucent-larval-flounder-newbert-1145420-ga.jpg

http://www.ectomo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/translucent-pelagic-octopus-newbert-1145307-xl.jpg

[the_jos]

This one was on my desktop for a long while:

Source: (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/08/friday_cephalopod_wicked_cool.php)

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2007/08/vampyroteuthis_lg.jpg

[lichunlei]

For China:
http://forum.coowow.com/cgi-bin/topic_show.cgi?id=5730&h=1#97635

[kait]

hi. maybe anyone knows, how is this guy called? i cant find any pictures, so i made one myself.

[kait]

ok, found it. nautilus of course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF8uv-wkOGs

[benu]

A huge gallery with marine amimals:

http://www.starfish.ch/c-invertebrates/index.html

[biglu]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/04/article-1204196-05F1F2B6000005DC-375_634x286_popup.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/08/04/article-1204196-05F1F2BB000005DC-372_634x416.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204196/Dr-Who-like-monster-stuns-sunbathers-washes-Welsh-beach.html

[HunterKiller_]

Ewwwwwwww it's like a giant floater.

[GESolar]

Deep Sea Creature Database
Atlantic Hagfish
Coelacanth
Chambered Nautilus
Deep Sea Anglerfish
Deep Sea Dragonfish
Firefly Squid
Giant Isopod
Giant Squid
Giant Tube Worm
Hatchetfish
Lanternfish
Oarfish
Sixgill Shark

Snipe Eel
Sperm Whale
Vampire Squid
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[neo3187]

wow some of these sure are scary, some are really beautiful though

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8M4A38LyBBs/Spdj-87BgaI/AAAAAAAANcc/zHJXKi6SNMo/s400/Beautiful+creatures+under+the+Sea6.jpg

[NicoleWG]

Wow, I can't believe I ended up here. I'm doing a 3D art design based on angler fish.