TOP FIVE DEEP SEA CREATURES YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN

5 POLYCHAETE

This creature trawled form the floor the sea at 1200 metres ie 3900 feet off the northern coast of New Zealand in 2015, this year.These worms can be ferocious predators. The “tentacles” on its head are sensory organs designed to detect prey. This one can turn its pharynx inside out in a sudden grab for smaller creatures . Thankfully, these types of worms rarely grow longer than 10cm and look like alien. They also tend to stay well out of our way, often found near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor.



4 BLOBFISH

The blobfish is a deep sea fish of the family Psychrolutidae. It inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of mainland Australia and Tasmania, as well as the waters of New Zealand. Blobfish are typically shorter than 30 cm.

3 CETOMIMIDAE

A group of gluttonous deep-sea predators called “whalefish” were known only from female specimens and classified as Cetomimidae, literally meaning “whale mimic.” For almost as long, another group of fish called Megalomycteridae, or “bignoses,” were only ever found to be male. Mysteriously, these creatures have no digestive tracts, implying a very short lifespan in which to find for a mate. Finally, a third variety of fish, nicknamed “tapetails,” seemed to all be juveniles,and are incredibly long, delicate tails. If you haven’t guessed already, we now know that these three totally different creatures are all the same exact animal.

2 TONGUEFISH

The scary eyed tonguefish, are usually found in shallow estuaries or tropical oceans. This one lives in the deep sea, and was trawled from the bottom of the western Pacific earlier this year 2015 Interestingly, some tonguefish have been spotted around sulphur-spewing hydrothermal vents.

1 VIPER FISH

In the genera Chauliodus, there is a deep-sea predator known as Chauliodus Sloani, better known as the viperfish. These slender fish have large, fang-like teeth and even though they appear to have scales, they are actually covered by a thick, transparent coating. One of the most interesting characteristics about the viperfish is the bell-shaped organ that illuminates to potentially lure in unsuspecting prey. They are known as random eaters, but they will feed mainly on Lanternfishes, Myctophidae, and other fish. Found in the bathypelagic region, the Viperfish lives at a depth between 1000 to 4000 meters.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viperfish)