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Creepy.org@creepydotorg · Aug 5, 2024

Bizarre sea creatures that look like they're not real: A thread 🧵 1. Jaws of a viper shark

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A thread showcasing 30+ bizarre and unusual sea creatures that appear almost unreal, including deep-sea fish with frightening features, parasitic organisms, and strange-looking marine animals from various ocean depths and regions.

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    Bizarre sea creatures that look like they're not real: A thread 🧵 1. Jaws of a viper shark

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    2. Pacific footballfish

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    3. This transparent creature is a salp x.com/visualfeastwan…

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    4. The tongue-eating louse, a parasite that destroys the tongue of a fish and then replaces it with its own body.

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    5. Marine iguana

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    6. Blobfish

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    7. Sheepshead fish

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    8. The black swallower can devour prey 10 times its mass. This one managed to tear open its stomach.

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    9. Bubble snail

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    10. The cookie-cutter shark is a parasitic shark that attaches itself to larger fish and marine mammals, like the dolphin pictured. This shark is able to inflict severe damage to skin and tissue, resulting in a "melon-baller" type of wound. It is often called the "cookie monster of the sea."

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    11. This is an Antarctic scale worm

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    12. Horn shark egg with a baby shark inside x.com/tradingMaxiSL/…

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    13. Lumpsucker, found in the freezing waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, and North Pacific. It swims at depths of 1700 m (5600 ft).

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    14. The blue glaucus

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    15. Fangtooths, one of the deepest living fish ever discovered. They live in freezing Arctic waters to moderate tropical waters. They are usually found around 2000 m (6500 ft) but can dive up to 4875 m (16000 ft).

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    16. Asian sheepshead wrasse

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    17. Frilled shark

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    18. The purple goby eel

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    19. Big-eye grenadier

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    20. Siamese fighting fish

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    21. Anglerfish washed ashore

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    22. Phronima sedentaria, a species of amphipod crustaceans found in oceans at a depth of up to 1 km.

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    23. Wolf eel

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    24. This creature is a basket star

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    25. The black oranda, also known as the blackberry goldfish.

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    26. The inside of a leatherback sea turtle’s mouth.

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    27. Ribbon worm

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    28. Stargazer fish

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    29. Black sea hare

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    30. A goblin shark's jaws

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    What is the scariest thing seen in the ocean that has a photographic proof?