Top 27 Best Deep Sea Organisms

[Raph's Girl]

#2:
Bone Eating Tube Worms! Wow...How Halloween can ya get?

A genus of tubeworm that lives on the carcasses of whales that have fallen to the seafloor. It lives off of mining the lipids in the whale's bones using "root"-like structures. THEY WILL EAT UR BONEZ!!1! I would not want to fall to the bottom and meet these little guys. Of course it takes a while before the worms settle in. First the sharks and hagfish have to strip away all the flesh

Not only do they eat whale bones, but they have a lifestyle that would strike fear in the hearts of any good christian family. You see, males are just parasitic little wormy sacks of sperm. They live in the oviduct of the female and live only to serve. And it is by no means a monogamous lifestyle. Each female might have up to 114 males prancing about inside of her. God knows what so many males do in one female. Surely nothing we would want our precious children to see.

Aaaand the #1 Deep See Animal Is.... Michias will be happy for it is the Vampire Squid!!

Originally Posted by Machias Banshee

Vampire squid have rows of spines AND suckers, their beaks are ivory white, and their eyes are the loveliest shade of light blue...

Also:

What's not to love about the vampire squid? Not really squid and not really octopod, it is sort of the bastard child of both. As the only known surviving member of its order, it is forever shunned to the deep to live the reminder of its life. It is truly Satan spawn and rightly named Vampyroteuthis infernalis or VAMPIRE SQUID FROM HELL! The beaks are void of color. Stark white, possible stained with your blood, is the last thing you will see before it eats your brain. The arms are connected with a billowy cape like the blood sucking fiends of Transylvania. The head to arm tip photophores are for counter-illumination, essentially a cloaking device in the murky depths. But the elaborate lighting displays they exhibit suggest these little demons may also use them for mating rituals and hunting.

Check out this vid of em:


http://blogs.discovery.com/deep_sea_...-best--20.html

[Machias Banshee]

A perfect finish to a neat thread...

[Cipher]

They had a tunicate and no mention of cuttlefish?

Beat out by a f---in' tunicate?!