Strange Deep Sea Creatures
Video courtesy of MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
Watch a video of strange and wierd sea creatures in the deep sea. Watch these wierd yet mesmerizing deep-sea animals. Now is your chance to meet a peacock squid, blob sculpin, black seadevil and a vampire squid, amongst others.
The animals were filmed in the depths of Monterey Bay and beyond.
This peacock squid has large eyeballs bulging from its head and photophores, or light organs, under its eyes.
The Blob sculpin is a species of deep-sea fish of the family Psychrolutidae. It feeds mainly on crustaceans, molluscs, and sea pens.
The black seadevil is a rare, deep-sea anglerfish, known for its black coloration and bioluminescent lure, which it uses to attract prey in the dark ocean depths.