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[Macam]

This come from /.: "The following page features numerous great pictures of bizarre and creepy deep-sea creatures which have been dredged up by the recent tsunami and presented by normal divers. Fascinating stuff! The page is in Russian, but it's all about the pictures."

http://forum.openwater.ru/index.php?showtopic=611

EDIT: Slashdot was incorrect in that the tsunami did not wash up these fish, but they were presented by divers in 2003 during a series of investigatory deep sea explorations, so I corrected the title. Nonetheless, the fish ARE real; takes some wind out of things though. Ah well, enjoy. Additional information on the fish and other species can be found here: http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/CreatureFeature.htm

A few samples:

 

[Odnetnin]

weird. Great link. Thanks!

 

[Rorschach]

Freaky cool. That last one makes me sad. Looks like it has pain in its eyes....

 

[Do The Mario]

Just another zoology fact to add to this thread.


The male deep sea Angler Fish is actually parasitic, after “grasping” onto the much larger female he remains there as nothing but a “bag of sperm”.

As you could imagine it would be hard to find a mate in the darkness of deep sea so this adaptation prevents the need.

 

[Dagon]

Wow. That third one reminds me of the Guild Navigator in the big-ass glass train in Dune.

 

[SecretSphere]

I've seen those pictures before a few months ago I believe. Also here on GAF.

 

[duckroll]

The tsunami had nothing to do with this. Talk about another bullshit hoax shit. These pics were all from a deep sea expedition MONTHS ago and it's been posted here before. Man people will connect anything just to bring back old news. >_<

(Not directed to the original poster, but to people who create fake news like this to begin with)

 

[gblues]

This come from /.: "The following page features numerous great pictures of bizarre and creepy deep-sea creatures which have been dredged up by the recent tsunami and presented by normal divers. Fascinating stuff! The page is in Russian, but it's all about the pictures."

http://forum.openwater.ru/index.php?showtopic=611

EDIT: Slashdot was incorrect in that the tsunami did not wash up these fish, but they were presented by divers in 2003 during a series of investigatory deep sea explorations, so I corrected the title. Nonetheless, the fish ARE real; takes some wind out of things though. Ah well, enjoy. Additional information on the fish and other species can be found here: http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/CreatureFeature.htm

And if you'd bothered to read the comments on the Slashdot story, you would know you got pwned.

edit: woah, the quote changed out from under me. That was weird. Oh well.

Nathan

 

[Axsider]

Looks like MAF

 

[Meier]

Yeah these pics are old as hell. Saw em at least a year ago on GAF.. they were originally posted from Concept Art.org or whatever that one site is (not that they're necessarily fake, I just recall some guy posted them there as inspiration).

 

[J2 Cool]

Looks like that Finding Nemo fish when the ocean got dark, without the light hung from it. And dude, seriously, that MAF fish is so damn sad. And the way his eye stares at the camera is weird.

 

[Ecrofirt]

I wonder if any of those are tasty. That crab looks delish!

 

[3phemeral]

This one sounds awesome:

The jewel squids are one of the strangest occupants of open-ocean waters. Firstly they have wonky eyes, the left eye is always much larger than the right. In some species the left eye is telescopic while the smaller right eye is normal. These squids have a funny slant on life, literally. They hang at a 45 ° angle and use the huge eye to look up for passing prey. Meanwhile the normal eye looks below for any signs of attackers. The common name comes from the scattering of small iridescent spots over the undersides of the body, head and arms. These are tiny directional light organs like tiny car headlights. When the squid is hanging at a 45 ° angle, all the light organs aim down and produce just enough light to cancel out the silhouette of the squid against the weak light from the surface above. They can even adjust the lights for different depths or time of day. Jewel squids are able to float mid-water by filling their soft flesh with pockets of ammonia solution that is less dense than seawater and cancels out the weight of their muscles. They make these solutions out of their body wastes: urine is turned into buoyancy.

 

[Phoenix]

IK was watching this Discovery channel thing that said dolphins do something similar. They sleep with one eye closed so that side of the brain can rest and the other eye open to watch for predators.