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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Greenland Shark

Greenland sharks have the longest lifespan of any known vertebrate, estimated to be between 250 and 500 years. They are among the largest extant shark species, reaching a maximum confirmed length of 6.4 m (21 ft) long and weighing over 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). They reach sexual maturity at about 150 years of age, and their pups are born alive after an estimated gestation period of 8 to 18 years.

Absolutely everything about them is interesting. And as far as an entity, they are a fantastic role model. The world would be a much better place if we were all more like the Greenland Shark.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Imagine being pregnant for 18 years...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Leatherback sea turtles are hella neat! Deepest diving of all of the turtles. Absolutely fearless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

OP is into hentai confirmed

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I don't have one, but now I'm thinking about it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Nautilus. I just think they are neat!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Wow. Forgot about that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Orca. They're just too damn cool, and they refuse to eat humans for some unknown reason. They, as a species, literally eat anything else that dares to enter their water including polar bears.

I personally maintain that some Orca took out an elderly or young human at some point, and the villagers responded by wiping out the entire pod of orca except for a traumatized survivor that told the rest of the orcas that they shouldn't ever eat the angry hairless monkeys, and the species has remembered for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Whats the scientific term for that oceangate thing that sploaded with all the billionaires?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All of them. There's so many.

Sunfish. Vampire squid. Blob fish. That terrifying worm that hides. Pistol shrimp.

It's a whole new world down there. Forget Mars!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lung fish, black fish, alligator, Ice fish.
Armour head, hammer head, anaconda, flat head.
Manta ray, stingray, fang-tooth moray.
Goblin shark, grass carp, round-river-bat ray.

Noodle fish, hag fish, man o' war, lady fish.
Black eel, baby seal, sprat, koi, electric eel.
Lamprey, pejerey, yellow-edged moray.
Salmon shark, sleeper shark, featherback and eagle ray.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

We didn’t start the fire

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We didn't start the current!

It was always flowin'

Since the Earth's been slowin'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

We didn't start the current!

So we decide to ride it

Since we can not fight it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not a super creative or interesting answer, but I'd be lying if I said anything other than the giant squid. That's gotta be one of the wildest most alien things on our planet. Squid are already fascinatingly weird and now you're telling me there are squids the size of a horse that fight whales at the bottom of the ocean? Amazing. Please stay down at the bottom of the sea where I am not. I know the colossal squid is bigger, but it's cool that the giant one is probably the basis of some of our most enduring myths of sea monsters and the name "giant squid" just rolls off the tongue really well

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Siphonophores. Extremely alien looking colonial organisms. Iirc they are, by far, the longest known aquatic creatures.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Bruh siphonophores are so fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Idk if I have a fave deep sea creature, I’ll have to think about that.. but I’m rather fond of coconut crabs. They steal shit from people, and are enormous.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

whatthefuck.jpg

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I was team Angler Fish when I got here but damn, there are some good candidates mentioned!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Gulper eel said, "I can't see shit down here. So I'm just going to swim around with my mouth open, and I'm just going to call whatever gets in there lunch."

To which evolution replied, "Bet?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Oarfish give me a sense of dread in the pit of my stomach, they're so cool

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

No love for iron snails?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dunno if it counts as deep sea, but coelacanths =)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Cthulhu. Also the reason I refuse to go into the ocean. Hes in there somewhere and Im not chancing that encounter

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Ohhhh dude, you're missing out ay, he is the sweetest dude ever, he took me on this awesome sea adventure, I met a Scottish lobster, a very camp sword fish, this weird little tribe of pygmy sea people and then I got to meet this awesome god like wallrus.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Cephalopods of all kinds are fabulous, but it's a crime I haven't seen siphonophores here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bigfin squid

Most alien shit on our planet

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