Mysterious creatures in the deep ocean that not everyone knows about (part 1)

The deep ocean is one of the greatest fears in the human subconscious, up to 95% of the ocean is still unexplored. Fear of the unknown forces us to always imagine and speculate that, beneath the cold depths where light cannot reach, strange, terrifying deep-sea creatures are hiding. Only monsters can survive the enormous pressure and complete darkness of the Mariana Trench.

1. Megamouth Shark

Living at a depth of 40 meters below the ocean floor, largemouth sharks eat plankton and small fish. Average length is about 17 feet (5.2 m). A special feature of this fish is that its mouth is covered with a luminescent organ that can glow in the dark to attract floating creatures as well as small fish, shrimp, shrimp, etc. ..

2. Giant Spider Crab

As omnivores, giant spider crabs live at a depth of 160 m under the ocean. Average size from 3.7 meters. Its shell is adorned with sponges and other animals to blend in on the ocean floor!

3. Atlantic Wolffish

A species of wolf fish in the Anarhichadidae family, they live at a depth of 500 meters below the ocean floor. The Atlantic wolffish uses its powerful jaws to eat shelled mollusks, crustaceans, and echinoderms. The special thing is that they do not eat other types of fish!

4. Basket Star

At a depth of 550 m below the ocean floor, we can encounter Basket Stars with an average size of only about 14 cm. They eat passing plankton with small, sharp hooks located on their tassels.

5. Ocean Sunfish

The heaviest bony fish ever discovered, they weigh from 250 kg to 1 ton! With an average length of about 6 feet (1.8 m), the sunfish's favorite food is jellyfish.

6. Pacific Hagfish

Living at a depth of 914 m below the ocean floor, they have an average body size of 63 cm, often eating dead or dying fish by penetrating the body and eating internal organs. When they are enjoying their prey, they often tie their tails into a knot to help create torque to increase bite force.

7.Giun Pigbutt (Pigbutt worm)

Discovered in 2007. This species lives at a depth of 914 m below the ocean floor. The body of the Pig Butt worm is divided into 3 segments, the middle segment is flat and the remaining 2 segments expand to have a different shape like a pig's butt, so it is named Pig Butt worm. With an average size of about 20 mm, their main food is sea snow. Pig Butt worms produce clouds of mucus to absorb sea snow and suck it back into their mouth.

8.Predatory Tunicate

With an average size of about 13 cm, living at an average depth of 1,000 meters below the seabed, this is a deep-sea carnivore, living anchored along the seabed, waiting for zooplankton to drift or get inside. Its mouth is as wide as its hood to catch them.

9. Giant Oarfish

Living at a depth of 1,000 m below the ocean floor, the oarfish or king belt fish is a fish species distributed globally, including the polar regions! Oar fish have an average length of 11 m, Japanese people believe that they carry omens of earthquakes in ancient stories.

10.Pacific Blackdragon

As fearsome carnivores, they live in the deep waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean from a depth of about 200 - 1,000 m, their main food is small crustaceans and other fish. As ambush predators, their bodies are only a dark black color, even their stomachs are covered with a layer of black tissue to block out any light that may be produced by the animals. luminescence that they eat.