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(#27) The Ugly Blobfish Is Squishy So It Floats at Extreme Depths
The blobfish will certainly not win any kind of oceanic beauty pageant, but the squishy, almost shapeless critter looks the way it does to enable itself to float more easily in the deep ocean where it lives. It's actually as sedentary as it looks: it remains almost entirely still, with no swim bladder, unlike most fish.
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(#39) The Armored Snail Is Built Like a Tank
Not many predators are going to try to take a bite out of the multilayered armored snail. You can find them over hydrothermal vents, deep in the Indian Ocean. Researchers say studying the creature "could inspire tough new materials for use in everything from body armor to scratch-free paint."
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(#2) The Sarcastic Fringehead Looks Like the Predator Movie
Do you remember the scary jaws of the Predator in the Predator movies? The sarcastic fringehead could very well be the inspiration. These big mouths hide on the ocean floor and engage in "mouth wrestling" when fighting each other for territory.
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(#9) Anglerfish Have a Built-in Lure on Their Heads
The deep-sea angler fish has a fleshy growth protruding from its head that lures unsuspecting creatures to its big mouth. The creatures at the bottom of the oceans are pretty much the stuff of nightmares.
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(#8) The Atolla Jellyfish Might As Well Be an Alien
If it looks like an alien and acts like an alien, is it an alien? The UFO-looking atolla jellyfish, like most jellyfish, has no digestive, respiratory, circulatory, or central nervous system. It also has a biological protective “burglar alarm” display visible from 300 feet away.
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(#4) The Goblin Shark Can Protrude Its Nail-like Teeth Forward
The aptly named goblin shark lives at great depth and rarely comes into contact with humans, so you can relax. Its nail-like teeth are encased in a jaw that can protrude forward, sort of like a xenomorph from the Alien movies.
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Do you have a deep-ocean phobia? On this huge and beautiful planet, some of the strangest and scariest creatures in the universe live in the ocean. There is no place on earth that is more fearful and dangerous than the ocean, and there are hunters lurking in the darkest depths at any time in the dark water. The number of terrorist creatures is incredible, with tens of thousands of known or unknown marine creatures.
This random tool introduces cool and scary facts about 41 sea creatures on earth, some of them are ancient marine species with a history of more than thousands of years. It is clear and blue, but there are too many secrets under the ocean.
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