Bizarre creatures hiding in the deep sea

The ocean accounts for three-quarters of the Earth's surface that we live in. There is a surprising fact that the number of people who have set foot on the Moon is many times that it can reach the depths of the ocean. So far, it is estimated that humans have only discovered about 1% of the seabed and mystery still covering the ocean floor.

Collection of sea creatures with foreign appearance - strange below may make you " dead " when starting the deep ocean exploration.

Squid "vampire"

Although scientists have confirmed that the demon squid (Vampire Squid) is not harmful to humans, but with a strange appearance, anyone can be threatened by this kind of " stand up ". Living at a depth of 1,000 meters at the bottom of the sea, this creature carries incredible incredible characteristics. They look extremely fierce with big spherical eyes.

The body of " vampire " squid is soft and viscous like jellyfish rather than squid.

This is the only member of the cephalopod family, bearing both the characteristics of the ink and the surviving octopus. When first discovered in 1903, the " vampire " ink was mistaken for octopus.

On the " vampire " body, there are two fins like ears.Thanks to them, it can move in water.

Their eyes are red or green depending on the light. On the body of " vampire " ink covered a lot of brightening agents (photophores), allowing them to glow or turn invisible in dark water. "Vampire" squid can control this concentration to attract prey or drive away enemies.

Angler fish (Angler Fish)

Angler fish (Angler Fish)

There are 3 antennae in the middle of the head. The longest fibers that rise from above the ankle can move in all directions to detect prey. This fish lives both on water and in deep waters.

They have tiny eyes and jelly-like skin that can reflect with blue light.

It is a mechanism for the finfish to protect themselves in the deep sea because practically all kinds of fish living on the bottom of the sea emit fluorescent light in blue color. Due to reflections with this light, other fish species living in the same location do not see them in detail but as an illusion. In addition, the pompano is round and round, making them swim very hard. They roll over and over and follow the flow of water.

Megamouth Shark

Megamouth Shark

The wide mouth shark can be easily identified by its giant head, which spits out a huge mouth. The inside of her mouth was as bright as silver and her jaw was filled with small teeth that curled like hooks. They have two unequal dorsal fins, the tail has irregular lobes. The fins are all white.

The head of this shark is very big but the eyes are very small, with 5 pairs of gills. Back from gray to dark gray with white spots, white belly.

Sharks carry ratings

Sharks with ratings with extremely fierce looks look like a sea monster. This is a fish that lives mainly in deep waters (over 1,500m), distributed intermittently in both the Atlantic and Pacific.

Sharks carry ratings

Possessing the characteristics of primitive sharks, they are considered to be undersea fossils from the dinosaur period up to 2m long, the body is dark brown like an eel but has six pairs of gills. In particular, they have small but extremely sharp teeth, arranged in 25 diagonal rows parallel to each other.

Green snake fish (ViperFish)

Green snake fish (ViperFish)

Green snake fish is one of the most scary fish that lives in the water. It is also the most popular fish known as the most aggressive predator. It can be easily identified by a large mouth with hooked, extremely sharp teeth, so large that the mouth cannot be closed. Therefore, the fangs curved up close to the eyes. Many people think that they use sharp teeth to stab their prey when swimming at high speed.

Fangtooth (Fangtooth)

Fangtooth (Fangtooth)

Although it looks like a real demon, the fangs are quite small, only 16 cm long. The body is short, dark, the head is large, the mouth is wide, the head has many gaps and greases separated by serrated edges. These pores are covered with a very thin layer of skin. The body has small, sharp scales that are colored from dark brown to black. The small eye is just above the head. In order to compensate for the lack of visual acuity, fangtooth fish have a line of development, feeling the fluctuation of the surrounding water.

Giant isopods (Giant Isopods)

Giant isopods (Giant Isopods)

The giant foot leg looked like an enlarged insect. This animal belongs to the crustacean family (like a mixture of shrimp and crab), with the scientific name Bathynomus giganteus, living in deep and cold waters in the Atlantic Ocean. For the fishing industry, foot bugs are not a very attractive object, because although they are very tasty, they are difficult to catch and when taken to the surface, it is enough time for other fish to eat meat. .

Moray sea eel

This bizarre animal creature is found in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean from New Jersey to Bermuda or the northern Gulf of Mexico. They often hide in cracked rocks and large coral reefs.

Moray sea eel

This eel species is claimed to be the largest of the Moray relatives with a body length of more than 2m and a body weight of about 25kg. With the above size, Moray blue eel is often confused with sea snakes.

According to the organism, this eel species' food includes crab, shrimp, fish or even squid and octopus.

Because the size of the head is quite small, it is difficult to swallow large prey, but instead, the eel's jaw structure is extremely special.

In addition to their sharp teeth outside, they also hid another tooth in the position almost. When preparing to eat prey, this special tooth will be lifted up to the mouth, along with the outer teeth to help digest food easily. It is known that this is the only animal equipped with this special organ.

Mouse tail cod

The rat-tail fish is about 60 centimeters long, has a relatively high life expectancy, but people have almost no knowledge of their reproductive habits. That's the number of ichthyologists who think that this deep-sea fish is very slow and their life lasts from 6 to 60 years. Getting down to their lair for a long time to learn how to live is impossible to take them out of their homes, they die. The air in their bubbles expand, the stomach swells, their eyes bulge and the whole body explodes. Never had one been caught alive when brought to the surface.

Arowana (Dragonfish)

Arowana (Dragonfish)

Arowanas are also known as scaly arowanas, a ferocious, brutal predatory fish on the ocean floor. Scientific name is Grammatostomias flagellibarba, they have sharp teeth and are too big for the whole body. The slack size is not large, about 15 centimeters is the same but it looks monstrous. There are many different arowanas but the shape is similar.

Puffer fish (Coffinfish)

Puffer fish (Coffinfish)

Puffer fish live on the seabed almost everywhere in the world. They have fins on the bottom that almost turn into legs, so they watch them move to the bottom of the sea, people see them walking, not swimming anymore.

Because of the aggressive hunting of fish species, the puffer fish has its own defense. Like puffer fish, they can swallow a large amount of water, causing them to bulge and suddenly become much bigger, make the fish frightened, leave without daring to attack them.

Warrior Snail (Battle Snail)

Snails are not a special animal in any way, but the ocean snails discovered in the Indian Ocean are an exception.

Warrior Snail (Battle Snail)

This snail will never be as shy as its terrestrial brethren thanks to the special armor it carries on it.

Perhaps the harsh environment on the deep sea has equipped this creature with a powerful weapon of perfect defense. That's the scales that contain . iron compounds. Currently, the US military is studying this strange snail to build weapons for its own warriors.

Giant tubeworm

This giant pipe worm is shaped like . lipstick bark, up to 2.4 meters long with 4cm body diameter. They are found at depths of more than 1,500 meters in the harshest locations of the ocean: near craters, or toxic exhaust fumes.

Giant tubeworm

Further research, experts found, giant wormworms do not have mouths, nor do they have a digestive organ system.

However, they still live for a very long time. Scientists say that the food source of this organism is the kind of marine bacteria they absorb.

The Basking Shark (The Basking Shark)

The Basking Shark (The Basking Shark)

Basket shark is the second largest fish in the world, behind the whale shark. They have a conical muzzle and gills that can be fully opened in their head area. Combined with bearing are comb teeth.

These combs are dark in color and like very hard window bars used to ' filter ' the amount of water they suck in, then release, but the comb retains but animal zooplankton feed them. Basket sharks are usually brownish gray with lighter spots. Caudal fin with crescent shaped edge. Small teeth, many, each row has hundreds of teeth, sharp and pointed inward, growing in both upper and lower jaws.

Demon fish (Stonefish)

Demon fish (Stonefish)

Devil face fish is an assassin of the sea. They live in shallow waters along the coast. The demonic fish face is very clever, when it is brown it looks like a rock, so it is called a fighting fish. There are 13 thorns on its back, and any thorns contain extremely poisonous venom.

The shark throws

The shark shark is a shark, living mainly in deep waters (over 1,500 meters), discontinuously distributed in both the Atlantic and Pacific.

This species has some characteristics of the " primitive " shark, which is considered " living fossil " in the seabed during the dinosaur period.

They have a length of up to 2 m (6.6 ft), have an eel-like body but have six pairs of gills resembling prehistoric sharks.

When moving and hunting, lizard sharks bend their bodies to move forward flexibly like a giant sea snake.

Gulper sea snake

Gulper sea snake

Gulper sea snake lives at a depth of 3000m, is one of the most bizarre animals in the deep sea. The most noticeable feature of this species is its wide mouth, which can be enlarged to swallow larger prey than it has, and its long, whip-shaped tail.

Gulper sea snakes have a pocket-shaped jaws similar to pelicans. Because of that, people often call them pelicans.

Their stomachs can expand elasticity to hold and squeeze huge amounts of food. Mature Gulper sea snakes are 1.83m long and distributed in most of the world's seas.

Japanese spider crab

Japanese spider crab

Japanese spider crabs, also known as giant spider crabs, spider crabs, Crabzilla are a species of sea crab in close-up Crabs that live in deep bottoms in Pacific waters. This is the largest crab currently existing on Earth. In Japanese, this crab is called " high leg crab ".

Deep Bobbit

Deep Bobbit

Nothing about this species is not weird. Even its name, which came from a 1993 trial, involved a woman named Lorena Bobbitt, a knife and . something that looked like a worm.

This worm can grow to reach 3m long. Most of the time, they are in the cave at the bottom of the sea, leaving only a part of the body sticking out on the surface to catch prey - mainly fish.

In 2009, a giant bobbit worm was found in Blue Reef aquarium, England.