The Thing Eunice aphroditois, the Bobbit worm ( Photo by Jenny / Wikimedia creative commons) The jaws extend considerably when it feeds, adding to the rather scary, nightmarish look.
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The elongated ‘nose’ gives it a fairly evil appearance, and at up to 3m long, it’s probably best not to encounter one while night diving, as the diver in the movie above discovered when one lunged in for a quick nibble.
Mitsukurina owstoni is, like the frilled shark, one of the oldest living species of fish in the water, coming in at around 125 million years old.
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Now that you know this, you’ll never unsee the picture above, and an image of the giant isopod and its little woodlouse pal will pop into your head every time you order prawns, or crack into a lobster. giganticus is a distant relative – as are shrimp, crabs and other underwater shelled creatures. Just out of interest, woodlice are, in fact, crustaceans, not insects, and therefore B. The largest model, Bathynomus giganteus (pictured above), can reach up to 76cm in length and weighs in at close to 2kg. Evil in appearance if not by nature, they thrive in cold, deep water, and range in size from 5cm and upwards. Looking for all the world like a giant woodlouse, but orders of magnitude nastier, giant isopods are a group of crustaceans comprised of at least 20 individual species. Giant isopod One of the largest isopods, Bathynomus giganteus (Photo: Eric Kilby / Wikimedia Commons) The frilled shark is found from the poles to the Equator in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, and while it definitely looks weird and just a wee bit scary, it is not thought to be at all dangerous. That’s twice as old as the last living dinosaur (that we know of), and 149.9 million years older than humans. The very strange-looking frilled shark ( Chlamydoselachus anguineus) is one of the oldest surviving species of shark in the water – and therefore among the oldest animals to have ever inhabited the planet – with some estimates dating the species to around 150 million years. They never visit the surface (with a face like that, who would?), but they are sometimes accidentally brought up as bycatch and their gelatinous bodies – like lots of other fish – can’t cope with gravity. Psychrolutes marcidus lives between 600-1,200m near the seafloor where to be fair, they look a lot less blobby than they do up here. Whoever gave the blobfish its name was perhaps a little bit lazy, possibly a little bit mean, but definitely scientifically accurate. Not so much a scary fish but definitely an ugly fish.
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So close, in fact, that the male’s head is permanently fused into the female’s body, effectively turning him into a portable sack of nuts.
In fact, so deep-sea dating is so difficult that the females of some anglerfish species form a very close, lifelong bond with the males.
Definitely a case of having a face that ‘only a mother could love’, and well – it would have to be a mother, because mates are hard to find in the inky blackness of the deep sea. The term ‘anglerfish’ covers a number of different species, all of whom have one thing in common: a bioluminescent lure that they can swing from the top of their heads to attract their prey, before sinking in a set of gnashers that would impress even Dracula. Here’s some underwater critters that might at the very least put you off your dinner, if they go bumping into you on the night dive…ĭeep sea anglerfish Humpback blackdevil anglerfish, Melanocetus johnsonii. Well, okay, if you shout loudly enough then yes, you can be quite easily heard underwater, actually.
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