Meet the Huge “Sea Elephant” Heteropod in Palau’s Ocean | Nautilus Live

[@lisak5133]

This is so incrediby cool but I can't help but feel like it looks like a child's first attempt at drawing a dolphin

[@julieb3996]

It does have a dolphin shape! It's interesting how things that are not related can evolve to have a similar shape

[@donedwards5301]

Thanks so much I have never even heard of a heteropod. It is gorgeous.

[@andyjay729]

A snail achieving convergent evolution with fish, who knew?

[@Ezullof]

It's kinda the opposite, many animals evolved a body plan like that, long before bony fish. The first ones being worms, then arthropods. Whales are the last ones.

[@thelaughingtiger146]

You guy's ,and the wonders from our oceans are AWESOME!

[@khublaklonk4480]

And today I learned of the existence of heteropods. Good start to the day, and what a wonderful animal.

[@projectvalkyrie4536]

What a cool guy! Even gave us a 180 to let us see both sides!

[@douglasstruthers8307]

It looks incredibly graceful. Surreal. Thanks for posting.

[@Skeptical_Numbat]

What an astonishing organism. That's one hell of a lot of convergent evolution! Turning a snail's foot into a ventral fin (they swim upside-down) & part of its mantle into a pseudo-caudle fin - combining give it the ability to actively swim to hunt other snails.

[@sandyaw3057]

Wow..that was incredible! Thank you

[@janenerbeaner1673]

That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen! I had to keep pausing and zooming in on it. Definitely going to be looking up more info on it!

[@patsmith4706]

Just one word - wow!

[@kellahella5286]

Wow. I love your videos. Thank you.

[@LukeFG]

It looks so abstract

[@faerydragonanstachesadventures]

Thank you for the information and all comments.

[@mikedrinan5223]

Just, wow!

[@Doxymeister]

Holy heteropod, Batman! LOL, that thing is awesome cool, thank you!

[@Jenisonc]

Incredible find! 🙏🖖

[@Larkinchance]

Question? How does the Sea Elephant fend off predators? With out their shell they have no refuge

[@2st486]

who wanna eat that? XD

[@Larkinchance]

@@2st486 without tarter sauce?

[@Dranzerk8908]

They prob move with current more, so predators aren't interested in it vs other forms of food.

[@nebularleveler8134]

These animals are very mobile fast swimmers. They swim only when pursuing prey or avoiding capture. At other times, they are curled into loose balls and are motionless, neither sinking nor rising toward the surface, like the one in this video.

[@nebularleveler8134]

Oh and their mostly transparent body greatly improves the likelihood of not being seen by predators.

[@ghostindamachine]

I learned something new today :)

[@CrowSkeleton]

Wild fantasy animal (or maybe sci-fi)...had no notion we share the planet with such beasts, wow.

[@julieb3996]

Really great capture of a rare sea creature! It is so bizarre and inspires me to wonder what might live on worlds beyond our own.

[@graphite2786]

I believe this is the fabled Glassy Nautilus (though it's not a nautilus!) whose shell, back in the 18th century, was worth it's weight in gold! Hard to believe that this weird snail is related to Triton snails - the huge mollusc that eats crown of thorns sea stars! Really, the strangest of all the phyla has to be the Molluscs, Squids, clams, nudibranchs, murex snails - they all look so different from one another 😀

[@jojo2007ish]

Its such a cool time to be alive to be able to see these beautiful animals. Im just sad i cant meet one! 😭

[@mpstudies]

The Carinaria is gorgeous

[@catherinehubbard1167]

With the fin, tail and elongated shape, it looks like it’s “trying” to start down the chordate path.

[@coralbricks]

Wow.

[@sabinegbaehre7335]

So wunderschön ❤

[@BlackReaper0]

What an interesting creature.

[@Larkinchance]

Some mollusks can re-generate its foot, some mollusks can sting I was just curious to know if there was some unique...

[@Liam.Lacoste]

Wow what a strange creature, I've never seen anything remotely similar to this

[@_JellyWalker]

Max Rebo's ancestor.

[@Incorruptus1]

The Killer Snail 😂

[@Julian-hx9yp]

Would be nice to see live cams

[@tron-8140]

I wouldn't describe 30cm as huge.

[@EngelSpiel]

I wonder if they’re related to cliones?

[@tracylee4442]

That’s crazy lookin

[@josephianstroet7988]

Its go in the sticker boek time 1:53 🙋😉🙊🪇

[@readytogo6569]

Crazy cool!

[@davidmayhew8083]

Heteropod does not come up in my dictionary. But pteropod does. ????

[@gisellebryan6457]

Educational and informative. Love the background music that is accompanying the Lord's deep sea beauty 🙏🙏🙏🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

[@2st486]

look up "mucky secrets - the marine creatures of the lembeh strait"

[@Amandalynn6350]

😮 amazing❤

[@sciencenerd7639]

wow!

[@Spettrosio]

I’m not understanding where’s the head-

[@AwesomeFish12]

The end with the blue eyes.

[@Spettrosio]

@@AwesomeFish12ok, Thanks, I saw it👍

[@alveolate]

what in the umbrella corp silent hill parasite eve is this thing please tell me we didn't mutate this poor dude with our plastic pollution etc

[@muddyblokjes9753]

it,s a 5 +

[@JojobaNutOil]

what am i looking at 😂

[@LaNiaKea-2025]

🦑Soooo cool !!! 🦑🦑🦑🦑

[@NonHalalBacon]

Pokemon

[@BigHugeFrog]

Who up heteroing their pod

[@JohnSmith-uy7sv]

Who or what could create millions of so many different living organisms and animals and and creatures with such perfection. Only an all powerful awesome God. Genesis chapter 1. The Christian Bible.

[@rogertemple7193]

This is great footage of the Heteropod i really enjoy seeing undersea life like this thanks m🫧🐟🐠🫧