Crazy deep sea creatures

StreetCypher

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This was brought to my attention a while ago. Thought i'd share some of these crazy pics.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19383


Other than the fact that they'd probably require "deep sea pressure", weird foods, unknown water parameters and they'd eat you, your family pet, your kids and your neighbours kids, i think they'd be cool to have them.
 
HOLY CRAP!!!! those are some of the ugliest, scariest, most foul looking creatures I have ever seen!!! I didn't even know anything that ugly existed!
The only one I could possibly ever want is the spiky cucumber thing.... but other than that... EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW :eek:
 
Great stuff- I was always fascinated as a kid by the abyssal zone. The fish there are unbelievable- bioluminescence, extremely bony to withstand the enormous pressures and frigid temperatures... They probably wouldn't be all that tolerant of light and would need a chiller unit as well... Those would be awesome to have if you could keep them properly.

Gotta give ma nature her due respect, even in the most hostile environments on the earth, there's organisms teeming and surviving everywhere- even around volcanic vents or in near-freezing depths with crushing pressures and virtually no light.
 
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That is freakin' AWESOME!
 
http://alexkorol.home.comcast.net/references/fish/aphyonus.jpg

thats a female and male angler fish (i think its an angler). Because its near impossible to find other fish, let alone your same species and of the opposite sex, the male will find a female, bite her and eventually will fuse his skin to hers. They both run off the same circulatory system, and the female uses the male for sperm during reproduction (talk about a "boy toy"). One of the only cases in the animal kingdom where one sex is parasitic of the opposite sex
 
Are you sure? I know it's the anglers that do that, but I was of the impression that it was the deep sea mouth o'teeth, blackish, with a glowing lure, not the fish picture there.
 
it deff confused me too, but a lot of the deep sea species of the "angler persuation" (for lack of a better description) use this as a mode of reproduction. If you look real close you can actually see the tail fin and eyes on the male

and im not sure whether thats an angler or not, my guess is no, seeing that it doesnt have the lure. But im pretty sure thats a male/female there
 
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