aww its a cute gif of a shark trying to bite but his mouth’s too smAHHHHWHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT OH MY GOD STOP NO STOP STOP STOP
if anybody is interested in being even more scared: these motherfuckers have been found in most oceans around the world and have existed for over 30 million years
The deep ocean is as close to hell as it gets man, this things a fucking nightmare
i’m pretty sure this is a goblin shark and there are far more scarier fish in the ocean and in fresh water rivers and streams.
for example:
tiger fish
vampire fish
basking shark
snakehead fish
and who can forget old mate
ANGLER FISH
even better, the Sarcastic Fringehead (yes Legit name) (also Known as ‘predator fish’)
Terrifying
my inner aquarium volunteer is screaming (SARCASTIC FRINGEHEADS OGHGHGHHFKgjdfhgJDGH) okay here we go
awww look it’s vampyroteuthis infernalis what a cutie
wait what—
whAT
hi missus footballfish how was your day??
Oh wait shit I forgot ur dead and preserved in formaldehyde that was rude of me sorry u look lovely mrs footballfish
hello i interrupt this scary marine animal showcase to present mr. california sheephead
he was born a girl like all his sisters. but since he had the biggest jaw size of the group
he changed into a dude fish who takes care of his sisters isn’t that so sweet
look at his lumpy ass head tho.
now back to your regularly scheduled scary-ass fish. oh look it’s cookie cutter shark
I’m terrified of the ocean but I love what inhabits it
I don’t know what this thing is but it can probably kill you in at least six horrible ways.
It’s a Spanish Dancer!! 😀 It’s a type of sea slug that eats poisonous animals for breakfast and then absorbs their toxic power for itself. Their badass menu includes sea sponges and Portugese Man-O-Wars.
That is most definitely not a Spanish Dancer.
This is a Spanish Dancer:
What OP posted is actually a flatworm. Yes, the same phylum that has fuckkers who like to hang out in human intestines.
That is called a Hancock’s flatworm (Pseudobiceros hancockanus) and it’s indeed toxic as hell, which is exactly why it’s so colorful. They are all hermaphrodites and before each mating they engage in a duel where they try to stab each other with their pointy twin dongers to decide who’s going to give the sperm to who. It’s called penis fencing, and yes, scientists call it that too.
EN GARDE DICKHEAD
No no no.
THIS is a Spanish dancer:
I’m so glad we cleared that up.
Ah right. My taxonomy is rusty sometimes.
Just to be exact, since many people lump the diverse Spanish regions together, this is not a dancer that represents strictly Spain. It is a dancer typical to one region of Spain – Sevillia. But in no way it is the only dancer the Spaniards have. As such it cannot be called a Spanish dancer because that would overlook the dancers in all other regions of Spain.
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I highlighted the entire rating system because i still don’t think this thing is real what the fuck kind of cryptid did you send me
im just…… what
why…. he got those ….. sticks……. this boy skipped leg day
so apparently he just sits on the seafloor like that and faces the direction that the current is coming from and just… opens it’s mouth to eat whatever falls in……. honestly ….. mood.
it’s time to talk about weird animals again here at bunjywunjy.tumblr.com, and today our topic is Predatory Tunicates, which are a species of evil sock puppet that lives on the sides of deep sea canyons.
wokka wokka wokka!
they function pretty much exactly like you’d think they would, behaving much like a venus flytrap.
fish goes in, fish DOES NOT COME OUT
the Predatory Tunicate is also the only tunicate known to be carnivorous. other tunicates are content to drift in the currents like lonely plastic bags, lacking the drive and ambition of the Predatory Tunicate.
role model!
also, like most deep sea creatures, Predatory Tunicates are massively improved by the addition of googly eyes.
I’ve reblogged these so many times but I forget if anyone ever added the OTHER varieties of carnivorous deep-sea squirt?
First, this one was observed in 2009 off the coast of Tasmania and I can’t find if it even has a name yet, but the mouth opens a completely different, less hilarious way.
Then there’s the kind of unsettling CULEOLUS which floats like a kite on the end of a loooong thin stalk.
This is a fucking head on a string. With a giant chin.
Finally there’s DICOPIA ANTIRRHINUM which is just like the OP “sock puppet” variety, but with a slightly different strategy! As you can see it has a camouflaged surface, flattened shaped and a shorter “stalk” it keeps mostly buried, so it can pretend to be nothing but a little mound of dirt when it wants to.
I just can’t get enough of how related animals vary in their tricks and gimmicks.
are tube-building, segmented bristle worms that live in tropical oceans. Named for their tree-like appearance, the multicolored spirals are actually highly derived structures for feeding and respiration.
Because it does not move outside its tube, this worm does not have any specialized appendages for movement or swimming. Instead, it bores into living coral, secretes a calcium carbonate tube around its body, and survives by filter feeding. (xxxxxxx)
Today we learned that conches, the sea-dwelling mollusks who live inside those big, beautiful conch seashells in warm tropical waters, peer out at the world with cartoonish eyes on tiny eyestalks. They see you. They see everything. And what’s more, they can regenerate their peepers should they happen to lose one or both of them.
“One 1976 paper dug into the specific behind these animals’ alien eyestalks. Sitting at the tips of long stalks, they contain retinas with both sensory cells and colored pigment cells. But the story gets weirder because obviously, it gets weirder. After amputating the conchs’ eyes, a fully-formed replacement took its place 14 days later. Humans, we really are losing this evolutionary game.”
But wait, that’s hardly the only surprising set of eyes under the sea. Scallops have eyes too, LOTS of them:
UPDATE! Hey everyone! Sorry for the confusion! Here’s more info to explain what’s going on: The anemone retreats once it feels the pinch of the barber slug’s bite. Latching on, the slug is pulled in with the anemone, not wanting to let go of its meal. Once the slug snips off a tentacle or two, it pulls itself back out of the tube and moves on to the next anemone spaghetti dish, while the anemone waits for the coast to clear before coming back out from its tube.
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