Welcome to another post of my strange animals series where you get to meet some of the weirdest, coolest, and craziest animals on a daily basis!
It's been a while since I last posted a strange animal so to compensate you I bring you today 25 (yes, 25!) weird deep sea creatures as recorded by the E/V Nautilus. The Nautilus Expedition is one of my favorite projects as the people behind it are kind enough to upload all the strange creatures they encounter during their journeys! I just love when I see a new video from them popping up in my feed!
At the end of the article I will place a link for each creature featured in this post in case you want to learn more!
Please note that the videos below are just my top-favorites and only a handful of what has been posted on their youtube channel. For more bizarre creatures and other stuff they have encountered just click here, and better subscribe, you won't regret it!
So, let's start our journey in the oddities of the deep blue:
1) Sea Pigs and other creatures of Arena Canyon
2) Spectacular Skates of the Southern California Margin
3) Googly-eyed Stubby Squid
4) Mola Mola (Just a quick glimpse)
5) Bizarre Benthic Siphonophores
6) Purple Sea Cucumber
7) Mysterious Purple Orb (Probably a Velutinid)
8) Amazing Variety of Sea Stars
9) Weird lifeforms at San Juan Seamount
10) Super Cute Flapjack Octopus
11) Hagfish Ties Itself Into a Knot (LOL!)
12) Snail Carrying Anemone
13) Anemone Hides from Octopus (AMAZING!)
14) Tiny Spaceship-like Jellyfish
15) Super Cute Bobtail Squid
16) Vampire Squid
17) Giant Isopod & Skate
18) Weird yellow thing! (Terebellid polychaete worm)
19) Phronima: The creature that Inspired "Aliens"
20) Amazing Siphonophore
21) Floating Sea-Pig
22) Creepy Ghost Shark (With Parasites)
23) Tripod Fish
24) Unusually Large Dumbo Octopus
25) Monk fish
Further Reading
Here's some links if you want to learn more about the creatures you just witnessed:
- Sea Pigs
- Skates
- Stubby Squid
- Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish)
- Siphonophorae
- Sea cucumbers
- Velutinidae
- Flapjack Octopus
- Hagfish
- Bobtail Squid
- Vampire Squid
- Terebellida
- Giant Isopod
- Phronima
- Chimaera
- Tripod Fish
- Dumbo Octopus
- Monkfish
My dear readers, thank you for reading today's article. Hopefully, you found it interesting enough to follow me, @trumpman. You may also want to check my strange animal series where you get to discover some of the world's weirdest animals! Here are the last 5 weirdos of the series:
- Lexias Pardalis: The Caterpillar That Wanted to Be a Peacock!
- Pariphiculus stellatus: New Weird Crab Species Discovered In Taiwan
- Yellow Boxed Fish: Is This the Cutest Fish or What?
- BigFin Squid: Creepy, Alien-Like Terror From the Deep
- 9 Incredibly Weird Animal Penises !!!
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