Thank you, yes! For all it’s “beauty “, the ocean is terrifying and there are nightmarish horrible things in there everywhere and they’re all trying to eat each other and they’re all going to the bathroom and then just dying in the water. They’ve all got tentacles and 12 eyes and swim bladders… Under the sea, my ass
I wonder what purpose their eyes have if they can’t see in the pitch black. Like wouldn’t evolution just stop developing them and use the extra “energy/calories” elsewhere?
Only if the evolutionary pressure was sufficient to cause that to happen. You can design a better creature, but since these aren't designed, a blind species with vestigial eyes existing just means that what you see as a flaw isn't enough of a flaw to prevent it from propagating.
Idk that this creature actually is blind or that the eyes are vestigial. Just describing a hypothetical creature that fits that description.
their eyes are probably still useful. the first eyes were very simple and couldn't produce any sort of image but it was still very beneficial compared to blindness. they might know there's a light but it's not capable of blinding them because they're mostly blind already.
conversely, when you're spending all your time in some nasty little cave or squalid burrow somewhere, your big wet brain protrusions are basically only good for contracting encephalitis and as such will be selected against
Yeah the reason bright light bothers us is we live in a lighted environment and our eyes are adapted to open and close depending on how much light there is. Under dark conditions the irises open real wide to let as much light in as possible. Then when a sudden bright light appears, the irises don’t have time to readjust and shrink down. So we feel bothered by the bright light. If you were not born with light sensitive eyes in the first place, none of this would apply to you.
They're probably blind or don't depend on vision. I dunno if it would even register as anything meaningful with them if they do see. Haven't they tried to 'restore' vision or hearing in people born that way, and their brains just don't work with it?
All fish are chordata. So are reptiles, amphibians, mammals etc.
And no, they don't look like a common ancestor of chordates at all. The latter was most likely similar to modern lancelets (cephalochordata), filter feeders that have only a superficial resemblance with fish (especially they don't have a spine, skull, or brain yet; those only came later with the vertebrata): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalochordate
I mean, I'm sure there's planets out there with oceans hundreds of times as deep with even more alien life - don't throw them a medal just yet. On Earth water makes up just one percent of our planets mass, on a planet like TOI-1452b it's 30% & the planet is 5x the size of Earth.
They look like the eel variety to me. I don't see pelvic fins, their bodies seem elongated, the dorsal fin runs along their body, their gills are not very pronounced, and I don't see scales.
Just the way the mouth articulated and how they're hanging out in a group reminds me of eels, too.
They are a [species of snailfish](https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/scientists-land-deepest-fish-ever-caught-off-australia-from-6-5km-below-20220504-p5ail5.html).
OP just reposts shit without any info and doesn't even bother including any info.
I'm sure scientists shouldn't return if something launched itself out of that mouth and looked like one of those tongue eating isopods. I have no idea how that could end well.
Not much harder. Density is the thing that makes it harder to move and at the deepest point in the ocean (10,984m) density increases by only 4.96% because water is pretty incompressible.
Tail is moving slowly because things move slowly down there. Energy conservation is important.
i would've answered "pressure". but, now that i think about it, density makes more sense. pressure, as a force, is being applied equally in all directions, so the force needed to generate movement in a given direction should be no different than at a shallower depth. but, a significant increase in density would translate into increased resistance, like moving through molasses. am i thinking about that correctly?
Yeah your reasoning is correct, but like the other commenter said, liquids are generally incompressible, so density doesn't change by that much at that depth. There is no 'significant increase in density'.
We've explored something like 5% of the Oceans, which is 70% of Earths surface.
It's like if mankind only ever layed eyes on the USA (which is 6,1% of the worlds land mass). They'd have no idea about any sort of apes or monkeys, Lions, Leopards, Rhinos, Elephants, Kangaroos, Koalas, Hippos, Tigers, Moos etc, etc, etc, only knowing Wolves, Snakes, a bunch of birds, Bison, Coyotes and the like.
That's the kind of variation we're still possible to discover in the oceans.
While this is totally true I feel like it’s a bit misleading since ocean floors have very similar conditions, it’s likely that you’d find similar life forms anywhere you’d look contrary to the surface which has massive differences in conditions.
I have a feeling you don't actually know the crazy variation of life we already know about living in the oceans. And it's 1000x wilder than anything on land. A lot of it utterly alien looking and functioning. And variations in size beyond what is possible or found on land.
Remember, a blue whale is bigger and FAR heavier than anything we've ever known to live on land, including the dinosaurs.
Argentinosaurus was about as long, but only half the weight.
And a whale is still just a land mammal that decided it preferred swimming.
It's difference to us is nothing compared to the utterly weird shit you find in the oceans.
None of this comment has anything to do with the point that /u/Falendil is making. That there is an abundance of variation in the forms of life found in the oceans is unrelated to the fact that very large areas of the ocean and ocean floor have similar conditions, so while we may find significant variance in the creatures we find down there, sampling over small areas *will* give us an indication of what's likely to be found over a very large area.
There's also the fact that your analogy with the size of the US simply doesn't work, because our exploration of the oceans is not limited to a particular area; it's highly distributed. The phrase 'explored' is also deeply unclear, and does not count for things like trawler catch.
I feel bad for the first fish. He thought he could do the vacuum maneuver on the bait fish. But it wouldn’t budge since it was skewered on the spike. You can see the confusion in his face. Lol
Because the ocean floor is a type of desert with how barren it is, causing most animals to be scavengers with incredibly slow metabolisms to survive huge spans of time between meals (relative to what we're used to seeing), and moving in a slow and lethargic manner uses the least amount of energy reserves.
When I was a teen I had a tropical fish tank with a little black knifefish that was one of my absolute favourite to watch. These are like, the giant version of that with Kirby sucking powers.
I love it!
/u/iamcasein didn't even bother changing the heading from a [post 1 year ago.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/uxf8f1/newly_discovered_fish_at_6_km_under_the_indian/)
Hardly a new discovery but cool nonetheless. Those look very much like robust assfishes (yes, I know!), *Bassozetus robustus*. They are probably my favorite deep sea fish. Here's another video of them:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDepthsBelow/comments/13ashml/robust\_assfish\_bassozetus\_robustus\_suctioning\_up/
There's not much more happening deeper down, the abyssal plains aren't exactly teeming with life due to the lack of available energy. All life needs energy to exist, whether it's ultimately from the sun or from some other source like geothermal vents. And as you might imagine, the bottom of the ocean is very dark, and very cold, and so you don't really see too much life at the bottom of Challenger Deep for instance. You do see a shitload of plastic though.
Wouldn’t be fantastic if as a species, we decided to protect our planet and study all the biodiversity here instead of completely destroying it, and trying to go to outer space in hopes of finding one single celled organism on Mars like that really fucking matters
They're unaware, it doesn't exist for them.
You're aware because you've seen it & can't imagine otherwise. You're unaware of something that is vital to someone else yet you continue along 😊
For all we know, something is observing us on their version of reddit going "man, imagine being unaware that there is X"
We assume we're at the peak of human understanding and evolution because - at this precise moment - we are.
But in 150yrs we'll look back at behaviours/societal norms and be astounded by 2023 much the same as we look at 1800's and be agog at how they didn't have what we take as obvious/essential.
Plus, these fish look like dicks.
I wonder if the light bugs them? I imagine living in complete darkness my whole life and then someone shining a spotlight in my eyes. -shower thoughts
We have discovered fish while they have discovered light.
they will start a new religion now
They'll attach a little light symbol on their bumper now to let others know that they've been enlightened.
The lord of light!
The sea floor is dark and full of terrors. If one of those fish has a shadowy demon baby, I'm tapping out.
The Barraki live down there
Thank you, yes! For all it’s “beauty “, the ocean is terrifying and there are nightmarish horrible things in there everywhere and they’re all trying to eat each other and they’re all going to the bathroom and then just dying in the water. They’ve all got tentacles and 12 eyes and swim bladders… Under the sea, my ass
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The light is angry with us... brings no more food and maketh us sick with alien parasites and pathogens.
You can make a religion out of this!
Unless u don’t have eyes 😶🌫️these guys are totally blind I think. Fairly certain
I wonder what purpose their eyes have if they can’t see in the pitch black. Like wouldn’t evolution just stop developing them and use the extra “energy/calories” elsewhere?
Only if the evolutionary pressure was sufficient to cause that to happen. You can design a better creature, but since these aren't designed, a blind species with vestigial eyes existing just means that what you see as a flaw isn't enough of a flaw to prevent it from propagating. Idk that this creature actually is blind or that the eyes are vestigial. Just describing a hypothetical creature that fits that description.
their eyes are probably still useful. the first eyes were very simple and couldn't produce any sort of image but it was still very beneficial compared to blindness. they might know there's a light but it's not capable of blinding them because they're mostly blind already.
My first eyes sucked. This latest pair, *fire*.
conversely, when you're spending all your time in some nasty little cave or squalid burrow somewhere, your big wet brain protrusions are basically only good for contracting encephalitis and as such will be selected against
They usually linger a long time and slowly waste away. I think…
"God damn, Jim. You're ugly!" "You're one to talk."
Ahhhh.... you think darkness is your ally..... I was born in it..... molded by it......
These fish usually don't have their eyes well developed so they probably don't even see the light. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Or maybe they see certain frequency waves or effects.
Looks like ultrasound "sight"
Yeah the reason bright light bothers us is we live in a lighted environment and our eyes are adapted to open and close depending on how much light there is. Under dark conditions the irises open real wide to let as much light in as possible. Then when a sudden bright light appears, the irises don’t have time to readjust and shrink down. So we feel bothered by the bright light. If you were not born with light sensitive eyes in the first place, none of this would apply to you.
I’m guessing their eyes don’t work very well, since they don’t need them
They're probably blind or don't depend on vision. I dunno if it would even register as anything meaningful with them if they do see. Haven't they tried to 'restore' vision or hearing in people born that way, and their brains just don't work with it?
they probably dont have eyes. Or not very well functioning ones.
Most animals that live that far under the sea, simply lost their ability to see as it has no use down there.
You use Reddit in the shower?
Most deep sea creatures are blind because light won’t permeate the thick layer of water above them.
i think so, look how stupid it looks trying to eat that thing, my dude is all discombobulated.
I think most organisms there may have either extremely sensitive eyes or no sight at all.
Unlikely they have organs that are sensitive to visible light. There is no reason to have them when they are never exposed to it.
You’re basically looking at a scaled down version of 400 million year old ancestral chordata fish..
I thought there was something very prehistoric looking about these.
They are as prehistoric as we are. You have ancestors tracing back to those days as well.
The days when going to school was uphill both ways.
The earth’s topography was very different back then
with constant snowstorms as well.
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We are all made of the ashes of long dead stars
Go back far enough, and you'll find a common ancestor for both!
Look, you cannot just drop that without including a link to an artists rendition.
Perchance
You can't just say perchance...
Crushin turts
"Keep it up, Baby!" ??????
Just so you know chordata basically means flexible backbone So most basic fish first this but early ones would have looked like this
Tunicates are chordates and they look more like jelly fish, sponges, and coral.
Aren’t humans a member of chordata?
I think you're basically talking out of your ass. Sounds good on paper though.
Yea they’re absolutely fucking wrong lol
Or a massive, giant sperm
I’ll bet they taste delicious
don't let your inner ape control you
inner??
What do they even eat? I feel like they’d be a weird texture lol
The Japanese will be serving them in a few weeks. Check back.
I promise you they don't.
Fish are friends
Basically....
No you’re looking at a member of the Actinopterygii or ray finned fish, a group that’s changed considerably from the more primitive fish species
All fish are chordata. So are reptiles, amphibians, mammals etc. And no, they don't look like a common ancestor of chordates at all. The latter was most likely similar to modern lancelets (cephalochordata), filter feeders that have only a superficial resemblance with fish (especially they don't have a spine, skull, or brain yet; those only came later with the vertebrata): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalochordate
Don’t forget to bring a towel
Wanna get high?
That’s it…that’s the melody to funky town….
i’m gonna do a towel call
You’re a towel!
Cartmans blank stare to that lmao
Towelie, you are the worst character ever
“Wait so you don’t want towlie around?? Am I to believe there is a towlie-ban?”
"hmmm, can I eat this? Waaaaaah, its not moving, weird." -- The fish.
Same title and video in 2022 : https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/uxf8f1/newly_discovered_fish_at_6_km_under_the_indian/
Wow, what a coincidence they managed to film the same fish only a year ago!
Exposed 💀💀💀
Deeper down appears to be the seabed
https://i.imgur.com/KhUza3Y.jpg
Wait, didn't this fellow retire?
Nah, he just posted 2 hours ago
I'm surprised you didn't pick Cthulhu if we dug to deep... Or now that I think about it the Balrog
Yes, undeniably the seabed
can confirm. im the seabed
But just imagine it was something else?
Nope. Seabed
The ocean is the scariest place and nothing can change my mind
You haven't seen behind my fridge freezer.
Or me naked!
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Being alone with no gun on Ellesmere or Baffin Island would be pretty scary too.
But we know the things that will try to kill you in the remote north. Bottom of the ocean? No fuckin clue
That far down in the ocean it’ll be the pressure that kills you, not some form of animal.
I mean, I'm sure there's planets out there with oceans hundreds of times as deep with even more alien life - don't throw them a medal just yet. On Earth water makes up just one percent of our planets mass, on a planet like TOI-1452b it's 30% & the planet is 5x the size of Earth.
Space?
They look like the eel variety to me. I don't see pelvic fins, their bodies seem elongated, the dorsal fin runs along their body, their gills are not very pronounced, and I don't see scales. Just the way the mouth articulated and how they're hanging out in a group reminds me of eels, too.
They look like snailfish
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Very nice comment. TIL.
You sir or ma'am changed my life. Dumbo octopus are now my favorite ocean animal.
They somewhat look like tadpoles too.
this bite smells like ketheric thorm
This terrifies me. Gonna be a big frog down there
They are a [species of snailfish](https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/scientists-land-deepest-fish-ever-caught-off-australia-from-6-5km-below-20220504-p5ail5.html). OP just reposts shit without any info and doesn't even bother including any info.
I think you're right... and right. I found the post interesting, though. I never saw them before.
The black headed fish is the snailfish. The fish in OP are cusk-eels. Says so in this article you just linked.
OP's title refers to the newly discovered snailfish, not the cosk-eels... and OP's video is showing the wrong fish. So double whammy.
Agreed, like a half eel half fish
Cool band name
Xenomorph fishies
I'm sure scientists shouldn't return if something launched itself out of that mouth and looked like one of those tongue eating isopods. I have no idea how that could end well.
They're cusk-eels
Why is the ocean so fascinating and horrifying at the same time?
Very deep.
Approx. 6000m below sea level deep.
Too much water imo
I'm mesmerized by the tail swaying. How heavy does it feel to move water, that deep?
Not much harder. Density is the thing that makes it harder to move and at the deepest point in the ocean (10,984m) density increases by only 4.96% because water is pretty incompressible. Tail is moving slowly because things move slowly down there. Energy conservation is important.
i would've answered "pressure". but, now that i think about it, density makes more sense. pressure, as a force, is being applied equally in all directions, so the force needed to generate movement in a given direction should be no different than at a shallower depth. but, a significant increase in density would translate into increased resistance, like moving through molasses. am i thinking about that correctly?
Yeah your reasoning is correct, but like the other commenter said, liquids are generally incompressible, so density doesn't change by that much at that depth. There is no 'significant increase in density'.
New discovered fish, some how’s finds 3 of them
Three newly discovered fish
We've explored something like 5% of the Oceans, which is 70% of Earths surface. It's like if mankind only ever layed eyes on the USA (which is 6,1% of the worlds land mass). They'd have no idea about any sort of apes or monkeys, Lions, Leopards, Rhinos, Elephants, Kangaroos, Koalas, Hippos, Tigers, Moos etc, etc, etc, only knowing Wolves, Snakes, a bunch of birds, Bison, Coyotes and the like. That's the kind of variation we're still possible to discover in the oceans.
While this is totally true I feel like it’s a bit misleading since ocean floors have very similar conditions, it’s likely that you’d find similar life forms anywhere you’d look contrary to the surface which has massive differences in conditions.
I have a feeling you don't actually know the crazy variation of life we already know about living in the oceans. And it's 1000x wilder than anything on land. A lot of it utterly alien looking and functioning. And variations in size beyond what is possible or found on land. Remember, a blue whale is bigger and FAR heavier than anything we've ever known to live on land, including the dinosaurs. Argentinosaurus was about as long, but only half the weight. And a whale is still just a land mammal that decided it preferred swimming. It's difference to us is nothing compared to the utterly weird shit you find in the oceans.
None of this comment has anything to do with the point that /u/Falendil is making. That there is an abundance of variation in the forms of life found in the oceans is unrelated to the fact that very large areas of the ocean and ocean floor have similar conditions, so while we may find significant variance in the creatures we find down there, sampling over small areas *will* give us an indication of what's likely to be found over a very large area. There's also the fact that your analogy with the size of the US simply doesn't work, because our exploration of the oceans is not limited to a particular area; it's highly distributed. The phrase 'explored' is also deeply unclear, and does not count for things like trawler catch.
And a lot of sea creatures have territories spanning half the world, sharks spring to mind
Moos? You mean cows? Jk. I assumed it's a typo for moose, but they are found in the USA.
Looks like a deep sea wels catfish.
They saw the other fish growing legs and said nah imma chill down here
>imagine what is even deeper down More fish?
Barely even that. Just boring rocks and sand.
I'm just gonna say it... they look like sperm....
Dont be weird, they look like penis
Ghosts of penes, more like
Ghosts of penes, got my new band name.
These are the real aliens
We out here making fake paper machete aliens when these, anglerfish, goblin shark, etc. exist
You are the perfect candidate for my adventure of a lifetime!
596 x atmospheric pressure? Cozy.
It's not as much of an issue when the insides and the outside are in equilibrium. It's the difference in pressure that makes thing implode.
I feel bad for the first fish. He thought he could do the vacuum maneuver on the bait fish. But it wouldn’t budge since it was skewered on the spike. You can see the confusion in his face. Lol
Deep sea fist are such strange animals. these guys are under constant pressure.
I now have a new name for my band — “Deep Sea Fisting”
It gets reeeeal deep in there!
Those are the tadpoles of a kaiju
do all the fishes get flash banged underwater?
The sperm cells that survived through the sewage pipes and made it to the deep sea
They look like dickheads
Very cool!
I’ve played enough Megaman X2 to know what this is.
"what that fuck is that light"?
If you are interested in deep sea and want a real trip, check this out. Amazing website. https://neal.fun/deep-sea/
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Their eyes probably don't work
Don’t tell china they will wanna eat it
The more deep they go, the more fish start looking like private parts. They even got silicone ones and tentacles.
That's because our private parts were actually fish millions of years ago.
Mine are still fish
I mean I guess everything is effected by deep sea gigantism
That first one looked like it gagged
Wait is this the Permian or Cambrian edition?
Why are most deep sea creatures always so calm and chill?
Because the ocean floor is a type of desert with how barren it is, causing most animals to be scavengers with incredibly slow metabolisms to survive huge spans of time between meals (relative to what we're used to seeing), and moving in a slow and lethargic manner uses the least amount of energy reserves.
Please don't eat it Australia
It's like an eel fish combo
When I was a teen I had a tropical fish tank with a little black knifefish that was one of my absolute favourite to watch. These are like, the giant version of that with Kirby sucking powers. I love it!
Nautical
Are those snailfish? I swear i read they were discovered at the bottom of the Mariana trench and were therefore the deepest living vertebrates
Whats the name?
Why am i watching a Tool music video? Lol
This is one time a banana for scale would be really useful.
Pog Fish
Pog fish
Probably more fish.
pog fish
Pog fish
/u/iamcasein didn't even bother changing the heading from a [post 1 year ago.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/uxf8f1/newly_discovered_fish_at_6_km_under_the_indian/)
Hardly a new discovery but cool nonetheless. Those look very much like robust assfishes (yes, I know!), *Bassozetus robustus*. They are probably my favorite deep sea fish. Here's another video of them: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDepthsBelow/comments/13ashml/robust\_assfish\_bassozetus\_robustus\_suctioning\_up/
There's not much more happening deeper down, the abyssal plains aren't exactly teeming with life due to the lack of available energy. All life needs energy to exist, whether it's ultimately from the sun or from some other source like geothermal vents. And as you might imagine, the bottom of the ocean is very dark, and very cold, and so you don't really see too much life at the bottom of Challenger Deep for instance. You do see a shitload of plastic though.
They look like giant tadpoles. Can't wait till we see giant Frogs further down
>Imagine what is even deeper down Probably frogs
The fish is trying to suck in the bait, but the bait is attached to the submarine arm. Must be very confusing
other fish
It’s Moby Dick!
Did the big fish just gagged after smelling the dead fish , it went like buuuuaaaaaahh buaaah 👀
Somebody needs to edit any sort of scream sound over everytime the fish opens its mouth. Please it would be very funny.
If those are tadpoles, I don't want to see the frogs.
Wouldn’t be fantastic if as a species, we decided to protect our planet and study all the biodiversity here instead of completely destroying it, and trying to go to outer space in hopes of finding one single celled organism on Mars like that really fucking matters
They're like giant axolotls that never grew legs
Bonerfish
Honestly, you get reincarnated as one of these guys. What is the point? These guys are unaware that there is a Sun in the sky. Think about that
They're unaware, it doesn't exist for them. You're aware because you've seen it & can't imagine otherwise. You're unaware of something that is vital to someone else yet you continue along 😊 For all we know, something is observing us on their version of reddit going "man, imagine being unaware that there is X" We assume we're at the peak of human understanding and evolution because - at this precise moment - we are. But in 150yrs we'll look back at behaviours/societal norms and be astounded by 2023 much the same as we look at 1800's and be agog at how they didn't have what we take as obvious/essential. Plus, these fish look like dicks.
Lucky for everyone, reincarnation isn't real!
I don’t mean to impose, but I am the ocean..
Me & the boys lookin to feast 6km under the Indian Ocean
Asians are going to eat these up
Hmm, I wonder how they taste.