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Lizard Fish

So far, the research team aboard the Investigator, a research vessel from the Australian Marine National Facility, has found a dragon fish that glows in the dark, carnivorous sponges that wield lethal weapons, a spine-chilling sea spider, and a fish that doesn't have a face.

"Jelly and fangs," is how chief scientist Tim O'Hara described the abyss where he found his most nightmarish catch yet—the deep-sea lizard fish (Bathysaurux ferox).

The fish was retrieved from a beam trawl trailing through Australia's eastern abyss, where John Pogonoski from the Australian National Fish Collection immediately recognized the rarely seen predator.

Food can be hard for these lizard fish to find at the bottom of the ocean, and mates are even more sparse. In order to maximize chances of reproduction, these fish have evolved into hermaphrodites, possessing both male and female organs, which allows them to mate with any member of their species that crosses their path.

via

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/deep-sea-lizard-fish-found-australian-deep-sea/

The whole voyage has a blog, full of pics and videos

https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/abyss-landing-page

Bonus pics

Carnivorous sponges

Coffin Fish

Sent me into the abyss if old

 

[El Topo]

It's a facehugger man. You're not fooling me.

 

[shira]

Nope.gif

PS Switch 2 & 3

 

[strafer]

Nope nope nope nope nope

 

[rtcn63]

la plagas and shit

 

[Syriel]

The facehugger is real.

Looks like a Pokemon.

 

[Murder. She Wrote]

I wish we were all hermaphrodites...

 

[Creepy]

Nice crab

 

[Admiral Woofington]

dude that crab looks hardcore as fuck.

Like a fucking punk rock mad max motherfucker.

 

[Septimus Prime]

Australia

 

[7he Talon]

I don't like looking at these... I don't like it at all.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

faceless fish

HOW

 

[GodParticle]

David working overtime

 

[Plywood]

God I love how freaky our oceans are.

 

[frontovik]

I wonder how that crab tastes.

 

[rackham]

Are those poisonous?

 

[30yearsofhurt]

Coofin Fish's face is meme worthy

 

[the_id]

I'm sure there's some form of intelligent life down that will replace us when we finally kill ourselves. After all, all our shit floats down there.

 

[YesNOnoNOYes]

sea spider eh

:thinking emoji:

 

[Kitsunebaby]

God I love how freaky our oceans are.

Same. I really want a horror/fantasy film set in the depths of the ocean with all manner of weird creatures.

 

[BizzyBum]

We should look into building cities deep under the sea so just in case aliens come to fuck with us we have all the weird ass shit in the ocean to protect us.

 

[Red]

Design by Tetsuya Nomura.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

We should look into building cities deep under the sea so just in case aliens come to fuck with us we have all the weird ass shit in the ocean to protect us.

 

[Caddywompus]

That's nothing, the shit this Russian fisherman finds...

 

[SuperStiltzkin]

"Jelly and fangs." Yeah that's a simple yet terrifying description of abyss creatures.

 

[Icedburden]

The facehugger is real.



Looks like a Pokemon.

First ones a Pokémon, the second is a digimon.

 

[CountAntonius]

Mutant Ejaculating Bacon

Spoiler

Ribbon Worm

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

Faceless fish looks like the squid from Prometheus

 

[TheRedSnifit]

That rock crab is more like a metal crab tbh.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

When No Man's Sky gets real.

 

[NHarmonic.]

Design by Tetsuya Nomura.

DEAD

 

[Kayo Police]

Spoiler

Did David create all of these too?

 

[zeemumu]

That sea spider cave in SOMA gave me the creeps.

 

[orochi91]

Design by Tetsuya Nomura.

lol

 

[100%TrophyMaster]

lol the coffin fish looks like it's reacting to an E3 trailer

 

[CocaMantis]

Yeah, nope. But like a fellow gaffer posted a few posts above me, this is nothing compared to what those russians caught in deep waters. That stuff was all kinds of fucking no.

 

[televator]

This thread is PROMETHEUS as fuck.

 

[Spirit of Jazz]

One day I aspire to be as happy as a lizard fish.

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

The Bloodborne sequel is shaping up nicely.

 

[Red]

Jesus Christ. Two prolapsed buttholes on its face alone.

 

[Memory]

Man i loved Atlantis so much, such a great show.

 

[Vyse24]

Carnivorous sponges

Aren't these the parasites from Resident Evil 4?

 

[God Dayumm]

If I were a billionaire I would open a zoo with all this shit.

Jesus Christ. Two prolapsed buttholes on its face alone.

But bet its butt looks like a cute little pink button

 

[Auto_aim1]

Put names on top of the images, it hurts my brain. But yeah, ocean is scary.

 

[Mr.Shrugglesツ]

Why is that faceless fish wearing a shirt?

 

[AlexFlame116]

Sometimes I wish there was a zoo or an aquarium filled with extremely strange and exotic animals like these.

It would be so cool!

 

[Beerman462]

My bands name is Rock Crab.

 

[BorkBork]

Dawww so cute.

 

[Roc]

There's a youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1KOOWHthbQVXH2kZue3_xA) called EVNautilus which has tons of marine footage. There are some really incredible things their submersibles have seen. I'd highly recommend checking it out.

 

[LinkAndEpona]

Marine biology tends to be the most interesting.