Our Earth is 70% water, and most of these vast water (including underwater) spaces remain poorly explored. Therefore, it is not at all surprising that the most amazing and strange representatives of the animal world live in the depths of the sea. Today in our article we will talk about the most incredible deep sea fish Mariana Trench and other ocean depths. Many of these fish were discovered by the human eye relatively recently, and many of them amaze us, humans, with their incredible and even fantastic appearance, structural features, habits and lifestyle.
Bassogigas is the deepest sea fish in the world
So, meet bassogigas - a fish that holds the absolute record for the deepest habitat. For the first time bassogigas was caught at the bottom of a trench near Puerto Rico at a depth of 8 km (!) From the John Eliot research ship.
Bassogigas.
As you can see, by appearance our deep-sea record holder differs little from ordinary fish, although in fact, despite the relatively typical appearance of his habits and lifestyle, scientists have not yet studied much zoologists, because to conduct research on such great depth a very difficult task.
Drop fish
But already our next hero is difficult to reproach for "usualness", meet - a drop fish, which, in our opinion, has the strangest and most fantastic appearance.
Like an alien from outer space, isn't it? A drop fish lives on a deep ocean bottom near Australia and Tasmania. The size of an adult representative of the species is not more than 30 cm. In front of it there is a process that resembles our nose, and on the sides, respectively, there are two eyes. A drop fish does not have developed muscles and resembles something in its way of life - it slowly swims with open mouth waiting for the prey, which is usually small invertebrates, to be near. After that, the drop fish swallows the prey. She herself is inedible and, moreover, is on the verge of extinction.
And here is our next hero - the sea bat, which in its appearance does not even look like a fish.
But, nevertheless, he is still a fish, although he cannot swim. The bat moves along the seabed, pushing off with its fins, which are so similar to legs. The bat lives in the warm deep waters of the world's oceans. The largest members of the species reach 50 cm in length. Bats are predators and feed on various small fish, but since they cannot swim, they lure their prey with a special bulb growing right from the head. This bulb has a specific smell that attracts fish, as well as worms and crustaceans (they also go to food for our hero), but the bat itself patiently sits in ambush and as soon as potential prey is nearby, it abruptly grabs it.
Angler fish - deep sea fish with flashlight
The deep-sea angler fish, living in the depths of the famous Mariana Trench, is especially remarkable for its appearance, thanks to the presence of a real fishing rod-flashlight on its head (hence its name).
The angler's fishing rod-flashlight is not only for beauty, but also serves the most practical purposes, with its help our hero also lures prey - various small fish, although due to his not small appetite and the presence of sharp teeth, the angler does not disdain to attack and for more major representatives fish kingdom. An interesting fact: angler fishes themselves often become victims of their special voracity, since grabbing big fish due to the peculiarities of the structure of the teeth, he can no longer release prey, as a result of which he himself chokes and dies.
But back to his amazing biological flashlight, why does it glow? In fact, the light is provided by special luminous bacteria that live in close symbiosis with the anglerfish.
Besides its main name deep sea fish-the angler has others: " sea Devil», « angler", Because in its appearance, and habits, it can be safely attributed to deep-sea fish monsters.
The barrel-eye has perhaps the most unusual structure among deep-sea fish: a transparent head through which it can see with its tubular eyes.
Although the fish was first discovered by scientists back in 1939, it still remains poorly understood. It lives in the Bering Sea, off the west coast of the United States and Canada, and off the coast of northern Japan.
Giant amoeba
American oceanographers 6 years ago discovered living things at a record depth of 10 km. - giant amoebas. True, they no longer belong to fish, so bassogigas still takes the lead among fish, but it is these giant amoebas that are absolute record holders among living creatures living on deepest- the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest known on Earth. These amoebas were discovered using a special deep-sea camera, and to this day, the study of their life continues.
Deep sea fish videos
And in addition to our article, we suggest you watch an interesting video about 10 incredible creatures Mariana Trench.
This article is a selection of the most unusual inhabitants of the world ocean. Of course, these amazing representatives underwater world hardly caught on a fishing trip. Even if you have in stock special fishing tackle purchased on the site. In addition to fishing goods, you can read a lot here. interesting articles about fishing and learn useful tips that will be useful to every fisherman.
Scorpena Ambona
Opened in 1856. Easily recognizable by the huge "eyebrows" - specific growths over the eyes. Can change color and fade. He leads a "partisan" hunt - disguising himself at the bottom and waiting for the victim. It is not uncommon and quite well studied, but its extravagant appearance simply cannot be ignored!
Psychedelic frog fish
Opened in 2009. A very unusual fish - the tail fin is bent to the side, the pectoral fins are modified and look like the paws of land animals. The head is large, wide-set eyes are directed forward, like in vertebrates, due to which the fish has a peculiar "facial expression". The color of the fish is yellow or reddish with sinuous blue-white stripes, diverging in different directions from the eyes blue... Unlike other fish that swim, this species moves as if jumping, pushing off the bottom with its pectoral fins and pushing water out of the gill slits, creating jet thrust... The tail of the fish is curved to the side and cannot directly direct the movement of the body, therefore it oscillates from side to side. Also, fish can crawl along the bottom using pectoral fins, touching them like legs.
Rag-picker
Opened in 1865. Representatives of this species of fish are notable for the fact that their entire body and head are covered with processes that imitate algae thalli. Although these processes are similar to fins, they do not take part in swimming, they serve for camouflage (both when hunting shrimp and for protection from enemies). Dwells in the waters Indian Ocean bordering southern, southeastern and southwestern Australia, as well as northern and eastern Tasmania. It feeds on plankton, small shrimps, algae. Without teeth, the rag-picker swallows food whole.
Moon fish
Opened in 1758. The laterally compressed body is extremely high and short, which gives the fish an extremely strange look: It resembles a disc in shape. The tail is very short, wide and truncated; the dorsal, caudal, and anal fins are interconnected. The skin of the moonfish is thick and elastic, covered with small bony tubercles. A fish moon can often be seen lying on its side on the surface of the water. An adult moonfish is a very poor swimmer, unable to overcome strong currents. It feeds on plankton, as well as squid, eel larvae, salps, comb jellies and jellyfish. It can reach gigantic dimensions of several tens of meters and weigh 1.5 tons.
Wide-nosed chimera
Opened in 1909. Absolutely disgusting-looking jelly-like fish. Inhabits on deep bottom Atlantic Ocean and feeds on shellfish. It has been studied extremely poorly.
Shroud bearer
Opened in 1884. These sharks outwardly look much more like a strange sea snake or an eel than their closest relatives. In the frilled shark, the gill openings, of which there are six on each side, are covered with skin folds. In this case, the membranes of the first branchial slit cross the fish's throat and join together, forming a wide skin lobe. Along with the brownie shark, it is one of the rarest sharks on the planet. No more than a hundred specimens of these fish are known. They have been studied extremely poorly.
Indonesian coelacanth
Opened in 1999. Living fossil and probably oldest fish on the ground. Before the discovery of the first representative of the Celikant order, to which the coelacanth belongs, it was considered completely extinct. Divergence time of two modern species coelacanth is 30-40 million years old. Not more than a dozen were caught live.
Hairy angler
Opened in 1930. Very strange and scary fish living on a deep bottom, where there is no sunlight - from 1 km and deeper. To bait the inhabitants deep sea uses a special luminous growth on the forehead, characteristic of the entire order of anglerfish. Due to its special metabolism and extremely sharp teeth, it can eat whatever it comes across, even if the victim is many times larger and is also a predator. It reproduces no less strange than it looks and feeds - due to the unusually harsh conditions and the rarity of fish, the male (ten times smaller than the female) attaches to the flesh of his chosen one and transfers everything he needs through the blood.
Drop fish
Opened in 1926. It is often mistaken for a joke. In fact, this is a completely real view of deep-sea bottom sea fish families of psychrolute, which on the surface acquire a "jelly" appearance with a "sad expression". It is poorly studied, but this is enough to recognize it as one of the most bizarre. The photo shows a copy of the Australian Museum.
Smallmouth Macropyne
Opened in 1939. It lives at very great depths, therefore it is poorly studied. In particular, the principle of fish vision was not entirely clear. It was believed that she must experience very great difficulties due to the fact that she sees only upward. Only in 2009 was the structure of the eye of this fish fully studied. Apparently, when trying to study it earlier, the fish simply could not tolerate the change in pressure. The most notable feature of this species is the transparent dome-shaped shell that covers the top and sides of its head, and the large, usually upward, cylindrical eyes that are under this shell. A dense and elastic covering membrane is attached to the back scales, and on the sides - to the wide and transparent ocular bones, which provide protection for the organs of vision. This covering structure is usually lost (or at least severely damaged) when fish are brought to the surface in trawls and nets, so until recently its existence was not known. Under the covering shell there is a chamber filled with a transparent liquid, in which, in fact, the eyes of the fish are located; the eyes of living fish are colored bright green and are separated by a thin bony septum, which, extending backward, expands and contains the brain. In front of each eye, but behind the mouth, is a large, rounded pocket that contains the olfactory receptor rosette. That is, what at first glance looks like eyes in photographs of live fish is actually an olfactory organ. Green color caused by the presence of a specific yellow pigment in them. It is believed that this pigment provides special filtration of light coming from above, and reduces its brightness, which allows the fish to distinguish the bioluminescence of potential prey.
Despite the fact that water occupies 70% of the surface of our planet, the oceans remain a mystery to humans. No more than 5% of the world's oceans have been explored, the rest of it is beyond the knowledge of people. But some interesting information still managed to get, for example, about what creatures live deep under water, where the sunlight does not penetrate.
1st place. Batizaurus
This lizard-headed creature is very reminiscent of long-extinct dinosaurs in a reduced form. Probably, for this similarity it got its name. Batizaurus lives in the seas of the tropical and subtropical climate at a depth of 600 to 3500 meters and reaches a length of 50-65 cm. It is considered the deepest predator, such a mini-machine - a killer, devouring everything that comes in its way. Even on the tongue, the batizaurus has teeth. By the way, this monster is a hermaphrodite, that is, it has both male and female sexual characteristics.
2nd place. Angler
This is probably the most ugly creature in the world, seeing him, one cannot help but be frightened. There are about 200 species of deep-sea monkfish, most of them inhabiting Atlantic Ocean... Some of these creatures grow up to a meter, and prey is lured with a glowing tail. Their mouths are so large, and the body itself is so flexible that they can swallow prey twice their size.
3rd place. Frilled Shark
This prehistoric creature lived and hunted beautifully back in the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth. People very rarely have the opportunity to contemplate this formidable predator, since the frilled shark prefers to stay at a depth of 1500 meters, where it hunts mainly cephalopods.
4th place. Fish is a drop
This fish is somewhat reminiscent of a person with an unhappy expression on his face, upset by his ugliness. It lives mainly off the coast of Tasmania at a depth of 800 meters and feeds on mollusks and sea urchins... In a fish - a drop does not have an air bubble, and the body consists of a jelly-like substance, slightly denser than water, which allows it to easily move along the seabed.
5th place. Fish - lion
According to some reports, lion fish appeared in the Caribbean Sea relatively recently, and became a real disaster for the local inhabitants. Unfamiliar with this type of fish, many try to taste them, and as a result, they themselves become prey. These fish have poisonous thorns, therefore, the only one who can eat a fish - a lion - is another fish - a lion, since they are not only predators, but also cannibals.
6th place. Fish - viper
This deep sea fish is known as one of the most ruthless predators of the seabed. It is easily recognizable by its large mouth with huge sharp fangs. In fact, the teeth are so long that they do not fit in her mouth and reach her eyes. Like the monkfish, the viper fish lures its prey with its glowing tail and pierces it with its terrible teeth. Her body is so flexible that she is able to swallow a victim larger than her.
7th place. Woodlice devouring the tongue
8th place. Sack swallow, or black devourer
This fish, up to 30 cm long, lives in the seas of a subtropical climate. It got its name from its elastic stomach, which can accommodate fish, four times the size of a bag-bag in size. The lower jaw has no bony connection to the skull, and there are no ribs on the abdomen. All this helps the fish to swallow food.
9th place. Macropinna Microstoma
This small fish is known for its transparent head, inside which there are green eyes. She lives in the cool waters of the Pacific and North Arctic Ocean at a depth of 200 to 600 meters.
10th place. Sea bat
it bottom fish, very reminiscent of a stingray, lives mainly in the warm waters of the seas and oceans at a depth of 200 to 1000 meters. It has a large head and a small tail; the body itself is practically absent. The bat does not know how to swim, and crawls along the bottom with reluctance. Basically, he just lies there, and waits for the food to swim up to him.
The sea, which most people associate with summer vacation and a wonderful pastime on a sandy beach under the scorching rays of the sun, is the source of most of the unsolved mysteries stored in unexplored depths.
The existence of life underwater
Swimming, having fun and enjoying the sea during vacations, people have no idea what is close to them. And there, in a zone of deep impenetrable darkness, where no one Sunray where there are no acceptable conditions for the existence of any organisms, there is a deep-sea world.
The first exploration of the deep sea
The first natural scientist who risked plunging into the abyss in order to check whether there are inhabitants of the deep sea was William Beebe, an American zoologist who specially assembled an expedition to study the unknown world near the Bahamas. Diving to the bottom in a bathyscaphe to a depth of 790 meters, the scientist discovered many different living organisms. depths - fish impressive size of all colors of the rainbow with hundreds of paws and sparkling teeth - the impenetrable water lit up with sparks and flashes.
The studies of this fearless man made it possible to break the myths about the impossibility of life at the bottom due to the lack of light and the presence highest pressure that does not allow the presence of any organisms. The truth lies in the fact that deep-sea inhabitants, adapting to environment, create an external pressure of their own. The available body fat helps these organisms swim freely on great depths(up to 11 kilometers). The eternal darkness adapts to itself so unusual creatures: the eyes, which they do not need there, are replaced by baroreceptors - special and sense of smell, allowing you to instantly respond to the slightest changes around.
Fantastic images of sea monsters
Deep-sea monsters have a frighteningly ugly appearance associated with the fantastic images captured in the paintings of the most daring artists. Huge mouths sharp teeth, lack of eyes, external coloring - all this is so unusual that it seems unreal, invented. In fact, the depths in order to survive are forced to simply adapt to the whims of the environment.
After many studies, scientists have come to the conclusion that today, seabed there may be the most ancient forms of life, hidden at great depths from occurring evolutionary processes... To this day, you can find spiders the size of a plate and jellyfish with 6-meter tentacles.
Megalodon: Monster Shark
Of great interest is the megalodon - a prehistoric animal of enormous size. The weight of this monster is up to 100 tons with a 30-meter length. The two-meter mouth of the monster is dotted with several rows of 18-centimeter teeth (there are 276 of them), razor-sharp.
The life of an amazing inhabitant of the depths of the sea terrifies none of which is unable to resist its power. The remains of triangular teeth that deep-sea monsters had are found in rocks in almost all corners of the planet, which indicates their wide distribution. At the beginning of the 20th century, Australian fishermen met with a megalodon in the sea, which confirms the version of its existence today.
Angler or Monkfish
The salty waters are inhabited by the rarest deep-sea animal of an ugly appearance - the anglerfish (anglerfish), first discovered in 1891. In place of the missing scales on his body are ugly bumps and growths, and around his mouth swaying rags of skin, reminiscent of algae, hang. Due to its dark color, giving a plainness, a giant head studded with thorns and a huge mouth gap, this deep-sea animal is rightfully considered the ugliest on planet Earth.
Several rows of sharp teeth and a long fleshy outgrowth sticking out of the head and serving as bait are a real threat to fish. Luring the victim with the light of a "fishing rod" equipped with a special gland, the angler lures it to its very mouth, forcing it to swim inside of its own free will. Distinguished by their incredible gluttony, these amazing inhabitants the depths of the sea can attack prey many times larger than them. If the outcome is unsuccessful, both die: the victim from wounds, the aggressor from suffocating.
Interesting facts about angler fish breeding
The fact of reproduction of these fish is of interest: the male, when meeting with a friend, digs into her with his teeth, growing to the operculum. Connecting to someone else's circulatory system and feeding on the juices of the female, the male individual actually becomes one with her, losing the jaws, intestines, and eyes that have become unnecessary. The main function of the attached fish in this period sperm production becomes. Several males can be attached to one female, several times smaller than her in size and weight, which, if the latter dies, die with her. Being commercial fish The monkfish is considered a delicacy. The French especially appreciate its meat.
Huge squid - mesonychtevis
Of the most famous mollusks of the planet, living at great depths, mesonychtevis is striking in its size - a squid of colossal size with a streamlined body that allows it to move with great speed... The eye of this monster of the deep sea is considered the largest on the planet, reaching a diameter of 60 centimeters. First description huge inhabitant the seabed, the existence of which people did not even suspect, is found in the documents of 1925. They tell about the discovery by fishermen of a sperm whale one and a half meter in the stomach. In 2010, a representative of this group of mollusks weighing more than 100 kg and about 4 meters in length was thrown off the coast of Japan. Scientists suggest that adults reach 5 meters in size and weigh about 200 kilograms.
Previously, it was believed that the squid is able to destroy its enemy - the sperm whale - by keeping it under water. In reality, the threat to the victim of the mollusk is represented by its tentacles, with which it penetrates the blowhole of the victim. A feature of the squid is its ability to exist for a long time without food, therefore the lifestyle of the latter is sedentary, suggesting camouflage and quiet pastime in waiting for the unfortunate victim.
Amazing sea dragon
Deciduous trees stand out for their fantastic appearance in the salt water column. sea Dragon(rag picker, sea pegasus). Translucent greenish fins that cover the body and serve as camouflage unusual fish, resemble colorful plumage and are constantly swaying from the movement of water.
Inhabited only off the coast of Australia, the rag picker reaches a length of 35 centimeters. He swims very slowly, with maximum speed up to 150 m / h, which is good for any predator. The life of an amazing inhabitant of the deep sea consists of many dangerous situations, in which the salvation is their own appearance: clinging to the plants, the deciduous sea dragon merges with them and becomes completely invisible. The offspring bears the male in a special bag, in which the female lays eggs. These inhabitants of the deep sea are especially interesting for children because of their unusual appearance.
Giant isopod
In the marine space, among the many unusual creatures, such inhabitants of the deep sea as isopods (crayfish giant size), reaching a length of up to 1.5 m and weighing up to 1.5 kg. The body, covered with movable rigid plates, is reliably protected from predators, upon the appearance of which the crayfish curl up into a ball.
Most of the representatives of these crustaceans, preferring solitude, live at a depth of 750 meters and are in a state close to hibernation. Amazing inhabitants of the sea depths feed on sedentary prey: small fish that sink to the bottom with carrion. Sometimes hundreds of crayfish can be seen devouring the decaying carcasses of dead sharks and whales. The lack of food at a depth has adapted the crayfish to do without it for a long time (up to several weeks). Most likely, the accumulated layer of fat, gradually and rationally spent, helps them to maintain their vital functions.
Drop fish
One of the most scary inhabitants the bottom on the planet is a drop fish (see deep-sea photos below).
Small close-set eyes and big mouth with corners directed downward vaguely resemble the face of a sad person. It is assumed that the fish lives at depths of up to 1.2 km. Outwardly, it is a shapeless gelatinous lump, the density of which is slightly less than the density of water. This allows the fish to swim calmly over considerable distances, swallowing everything edible and without spending much effort. Lack of scales and strange shape bodies staged existence this organism endangered. Living off the coast of Tasmania and Australia, it easily becomes a prey for fishermen and is sold as souvenirs.
When laying eggs, the drop fish sits on the eggs to the last, then carefully and for a long time taking care of the hatched fry. Trying to find quiet and uninhabited places for them in deep water, the female responsibly protects her babies, ensuring their safety and helping them survive in difficult conditions. Not having in nature natural enemies, these inhabitants of the deep sea can accidentally get caught with algae only in fishing nets.
Sackgut: small and gluttonous
At a depth of up to 3 kilometers, a representative of the perch-like species lives - the sackcap (black devourer). The fish got this name due to the ability to feed on prey, several times larger than it. She can swallow organisms four times longer than herself and ten times heavier. This is due to the lack of ribs and the elasticity of the stomach. For example, the corpse of a 30-centimeter sackcloth found near the Cayman Islands contained the remains of a fish about 90 cm long. Moreover, the victim was a rather aggressive mackerel, which causes complete bewilderment: how could a small fish defeat a large and strong rival?
These amazing inhabitants of the deep sea have a dark color, a medium-sized head and large jaws with three front teeth on each of them, forming sharp fangs. With their help, the sackcloth holds its victim, pushing it into the stomach. Moreover, the prey, often large in size, is not digested immediately, which causes cadaveric decomposition directly in the stomach itself. The gas released as a result of this raises the bag to the surface, where it is found strange representatives the seabed.
Moray eel - a dangerous predator of the deep sea
In the waters warm seas you can find a giant moray eel - a terrible three-meter creature with an aggressive and vicious character. The smooth, scaleless body allows the predator to effectively camouflage in the muddy bottom, waiting for prey swimming by. Most moray eels spend their lives in shelters (on a rocky bottom or in coral reefs with their cracks and grottoes), where prey awaits.
Outside the caves, the front part of the body and the head are usually left with a constantly open mouth. The moray eel color is an excellent disguise: the yellow-brown color with spots scattered over it resembles the color of a leopard. Moray eats crustaceans and any fish that can be caught. For eating sick and weak individuals, she is also referred to as a "marine orderly". Sad cases of eating people are known. This happens due to the inexperience of the latter when communicating with fish and with persistent pursuit of it. Having grabbed the prey, the predator will open its jaws only after its death, and not earlier.
Joint fishery of marine predators
The recently discovered joint fishing of fish, which are antipodes in nature, is of great interest to scientists. During the hunt, the moray eel hides in coral reefs, where it waits for prey. being a predator, it hunts in open space, which forces small fish to hide in reefs, therefore, in the mouth of a moray eel. A hungry perch always initiates a joint hunt, swimming up to the moray eel and shaking its head, which means an invitation to a mutually beneficial fishing. If the moray eel, in anticipation of a delicious lunch, agrees to a tempting offer, it gets out of the hiding place and swims to the gap with the hiding prey, which is indicated by the perch. Moreover, jointly caught prey is also jointly eaten; The moray eel is shared with the perch by the caught fish.
The depths of the seas and oceans, where sunlight does not penetrate, are home to many amazing creatures... It is believed that 98 percent of all aquatic animals live at the very bottom or just above. Currently, only a small part of the huge deep sea world, which may be for the best. Many amazing and scary creatures have been discovered, but even more of them are hidden under the water column. And we can't even imagine what terrible secrets the depths keep. Look at the photographs of the eleven creatures that are the most prominent representatives underwater kingdom.
1. Saber-toothed fish
The saber-toothed fish is a real sea monster. It lives in tropical oceans at a depth of about five kilometers. Although its length is 18 centimeters on average, the fish still looks terrifying. This creature got its name from its huge teeth. Despite its threatening appearance, the saber-toothed fish is not dangerous to humans. In any case, not a single case of attack was officially registered. This deep-sea predator feeds on small fish and squid.
2. Goblin shark
The goblin shark is also known as the goblin shark. This one is very rare view considered a living fossil - it appeared in the era of the dinosaurs, 125 million years ago. The shark does not like sunlight and usually does not rise above 100 meters from the surface of the water. The average length of this deep sea dweller- about 4 meters. Many people, when they see this monster, think that the animal is crippled. But this is not so - this is just a specific "appearance" of the shark.
3. Giant isopod
These crustaceans resemble multiply enlarged wood lice. The largest of the caught isopods reached a length of 76 centimeters. These animals live at the very bottom under the water column from 170 meters to 2 kilometers. Giant isopods are considered carnivores, but they tend to feed on dead creatures. Although they do not disdain fish, if they manage to catch it. When threatened, isopods curl up into a ball, just like their terrestrial relatives.
4. Catfish
Catfish usually grow up to two and a half meters in length and can weigh about 30 kilograms. Fish live at depths from 300 to 1700 meters. Most interesting feature catfish are their puffy "faces" with puffy lips. Sharp, protruding teeth give the fish an intimidating look.
5. Bigmouth
Bigmouth also bears the name "pelican fish" - it is immediately clear why. It lives deep under the surface of the ocean - from 500 meters to 3 kilometers. Bigmouth has a serpentine body (up to 80 centimeters in length) and a terrifying huge mouth. The fish is capable of swallowing prey that is much larger than the bigmouth in size. The stomach is also adapted to such extreme nutrition - it stretches to fantastic sizes.
6. Japanese spider crab
Japanese spider crabs live along the coast of Japan at depths of 200 to 900 meters. The body of the crab is relatively small - up to 45 centimeters, but the span of the front pair of legs can reach 4 meters. The weight of these monsters reaches twenty kilograms. Despite the formidable appearance, giant spider crabs, as a rule, have a peaceful character. In Japan, they are caught and eaten as a favorite delicacy.
7. Johnson's melanocet
Johnson's melanocet - maybe the most scary creature of all those hiding under the water column. It lives at a depth of 4.5 kilometers, although it can rise to a level of 100 meters from the surface. Females of the melacene grow up to 18 centimeters in length, while males are not large in size. Its shape resembles a drop with a mouthful of dagger-like teeth. Its head is equipped with processes with luminous photophores - in this way the predator lures its prey.
8. Frilled shark
Frilled sharks trace their ancestry back to prehistoric times. All of their closest relatives have long since become extinct. Sharks of this species have a long and thin body... They can be up to two meters long. The worst thing about a shark is its teeth (about 300 pieces), which are arranged in rows (up to 29 rows on the lower and the same number on the upper jaw). Frilled sharks live at a depth of about one and a half thousand meters.
9. Giant squid
Giant squids, due to their lifestyle, are almost elusive for fixation on a photo or video camera. They live deep under water and only occasionally rise to the surface. These giants grow up to 17 meters in length. Some people say they have seen specimens over twenty meters in length on the high seas. But there is no documentary evidence for this. To date, none giant squid was not caught. Sometimes already dead animals are found washed ashore.
10. Infernal vampire
Infernal vampires live in tropical and temperate ocean waters at depths ranging from 400 meters to a kilometer. Representatives of this family have the usual head shape for squid, but the tentacles are connected by membranes like a funnel. Inside the funnel are thorns and suckers, with which the hellish vampires paralyze and restrain their victims. Although these animals are called vampire squids, they are actually a separate family - the Vampyroteuthidae.
11. Howliods
Howliods have huge mouths full of fangs. The teeth are so large that they cannot fit in the mouth. As you may have guessed, these fish are predators. When Hawliods swallow their prey, their jaw moves forward and downward, and their head can swing back. The size of the fish is not too large, they grow to an average of 35 centimeters. Usually howliods live at a depth of 500 meters to a kilometer, although they are able to dive to much great depth- up to 4 kilometers.
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