Why Does Deep Sea Life Look So Strange?

Scientists have found that the darkest and deepest parts of our oceans are teeming with life. But how exactly do they survive down there?
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[@yutoob6181]

Cuz when you're in the dark you are allowed to be ugly

[@Mono-rg8tb]

HAHAHAHA story of my life :'))

[@VEVOJavier]

+Yu Toob lmao

[@kenzofinucane4057]

+Lunarella 110 haha

[@kieakewii]

😂😂😂😂

[@TheDAZ1001]

+Yu Toob Even being ugly aint cheap these days. tesco's charge 5pence per bag over here in the UK. So I have to ask the poor girl for some change 1st :D

[@lt_dagg]

maybe it's because it's too dark and there's no one to impress

[@gingergamergirl98]

Lol

[@vgacoralreef]

my kind of place jk

[@wthilmi]

This is just another cover up conspiracy to hide spongebob from us.

[@yourownpersonalexistential2470]

Juan Fredic Carlos you know what? I saw the top comment and thought that maybe there wouldn't be really weird comments. I was wrong lol

[@Evil12monks]

I just hate these cover ups. I wish they would show the evidence of SpongeBob SquarePants.

[@ulimkencanawati808]

Juan Fredic Carlos 😂

[@revenant_shadowblade8986]

Juan Fredic Carlos spongebob is somewhere down there and we must find him

[@lindamartinez9438]

He will be in a pineapple down there for sure

[@JordL98]

It's scary how we know more about the surface of our moon than the bottom of the sea...

[@tylerstokes3524]

We also don't know why I'm so ugly :( we'll find out one day I guess

[@thesarcasticshu4409]

+Tyler Stokes Genetics and poor living. At least we have one answer, guys.

[@dangiscongrataway2365]

Why is it so scary? All you have to do to know about the surface of the moon is look at it

[@thesarcasticshu4409]

Spaskiba Maybe he has a big plan to go for a swim. The trenches of the ocean are pretty scarier than the moon then.

[@bigdickpornsuperstar]

Not scary, just technically easier. From and engineering and material science point of view, it's just a whole hell of a lot easier keeping 14.7 psi of pressure inside of a space capsule than it is to keep 15,750 psi outside of a diving bell. And that's when people are involved. Take humans out of the equation and robotic craft to the moon don't need any atmospheric containment at all. Robotic craft to the bottom of the ocean, however, **STILL** need to keep all that water pressure out. For more than half a century, exploring the moon has been significantly easier than exploring the bottom of the ocean. Just because it is further away really had very little to do with it. it is only recently, in the last decade or two that deep water craft capable of those depths have started becoming available. And even then, far more spacecraft exist today than bathyspheres or DSVs. (I know, that alone sounds really weird.)

[@MiNombreEsElCamaron]

I don't know who this guy is but I like him a lot. I wish we could see more of him. He is engaging and his voice is exciting.

[@lordofbanana6869]

He is our lord and saviour

[@wallenthompson505]

+Lord of Banana God Speaks Through Us

[@lordofbanana6869]

+Wally Thompson Sooo if god speaks through us and i just said that the person in the video is our lord and saviour does that mean that god said that that man is our lord and saviour? That would either make god a liar or it would mean that the man in the video actually is our lord and saviour. Choose lol

[@StefanTravis]

+MiNombreEsElCamaron Yeah, and he';s _so_ geekily hot. Which is of course a _completely_ separate thing :-).

[@wallenthompson505]

+Lord of Banana Yeah Meant To Say Actually

[@LisaN]

I learned a lot from this video that I didn't know before. Thank you!

[@LisaN]

P. S. I like the presenter. Please have him on more!

[@themoviescorelad3230]

+Lisa N Agreed

[@467sprite]

+Lisa N i think this video taught me the most from all their other videos. cool vid

[@TheGoodContent37]

+Lisa N Well, that's the definition of "learn", adquire knowledge of something you didn't know...

[@ventroid4473]

but did they find a sponge living in a pineapple?

[@solaireofastora3]

I did. ;)

[@romaunces]

Yesh

[@ramasherghoshram1829]

😂😂😂 and what about scientist chipmunk wearing underwater suit

[@floresamor4146]

how about a sea star living under a rock?

[@TheRareGamer]

+Junubia welp, that is most possible

[@javianloveless2251]

this reminds me of that rock bottom SpongeBob episode

[@Daigon95]

Advanced Darkness 0-0

[@KittySnicker]

It's like old grandpa Squarepants said: never run for a bus. "Yeh especially one that's goin' up at a 90 degree aaaangle."

[@floresamor4146]

me too lol!!!

[@caincisneros5585]

Same

[@Fred-yd8qb]

It looks strange because the Flying Spaghetti Monster created them that way...

[@JaynellCruzYoubie]

RAMEN

[@davidp2352]

MY LEG!!!

[@diegojimenez466]

REP UP THOSE FRIERS

[@kenzofinucane4057]

no it was yahwe, you shouldnt worship the wrong gods

[@ZbangzbangNoMi]

Preach it, Fred.

[@unconbentional2044]

Angler Fish mating.......Still a better love story than twilight.

[@Librocubicularist1]

😂

[@Ar-ee4vr]

If we are lucky we will see spongebob at the stream

[@beli1m164]

lol

[@nashdoyle3303]

Ar71 well he doesn't live deep sea he went there once remember after glove world?

[@aturtle173]

The moon because I get to experience little gravity! I've lived underwater almost my whole life

[@BlueBD]

moon aint zeroG

[@aturtle173]

oops my bad

[@calliopesmith1815]

+Blue★ This fine gentleturtle said LITTLE gravity. Not zero gravity if I am correct, you are wrong Blue.

[@PhobiaPhobic]

+Bob the Temmie Turtle edited his post after he was corrected :)

[@seasmokeshand363]

+PhobiaPhobic Nice profile pic Dude

[@jordanscott776]

I have the same sex life as these fish.... Not much...

[@PixelKnighty]

Does gender matter?

[@PixelKnighty]

Does gender matter?

[@kilderok]

+Jordan Scott mainly parasitic?

[@zakmatew]

The pressure doesn't explain in the slightest their morphology and appearance. There are animals with similar shapes in the shallower areas where the pressure is much less. Piranhas are similar in many respects to anglerfish and yet they live in completely different pressures. Also, the reason for the bioluminescence of the anglerfish due to a symbiotic relationship with bacteria is not very convincing. Seems to me that they simply offer any explanation rather than no explanation. This way people have "knowledge". Knowledge is not based on speculation.

[@joshuawalker3222]

The scary door

[@DarkWorldOrder]

i love this kind of stuff

[@manolismarinakis8444]

After some time watching the video I thought to myself that the video was in a strange way more fluid and understandable than usual and then it hit me... METRIC!!!

[@SouthPark333Gaming]

i love that intro!

[@hamstersl101]

You forgot to mention the unique adaptation of red fish in the aphotic zone that come off as totally invisible to other fish since red is a color that cannot be seen deep in the ocean.

[@JohnYoungPhotographer]

fascinating.....thanks

[@leetlefool7173]

"No word from a Pineapple House yet though." Wow. XD

[@Eugguy190722]

He played the drums very well in Love Actually!

[@lindamartinez9438]

I'd rather know more about the bottom of the sea but not only the life but lost cities also

[@aliceainsley]

okay that opening was pretty clever

[@themarsquatch420]

Where will the National Oceanic Association, or whatever, be streaming? Like will it be on KZbin and their website, or just on their website?

[@AncientEntity]

Where's the live stream? And when?

[@dreadknight09]

i can't really answer that question at the end, the reason being is because of how i view both space and the bottom of the ocean, i think both would be awesome however the way i view the ocean with us being down there is pretty much the Bioshock's city of Rapture, space on the other hand has been influenced by anime and manga since the early 2000s and the most recent one being Sidonia no Kishi in which the earth is attacked by aliens and mankind only managed to survive by colonizing meteors to stay out of their way and modifying human genetics to be able to use photosynthesis(yes, it's silly, but still awesome and i love the soundtrack), so i can't pick one over the other

[@The_RoboDoc]

l choose moon

[@FocusMrbjarke]

That's a wired pokemon

[@filthygarbage]

+FocusMrbjarke its a kerbal

[@Dio____Brando]

+Eepu dont , pick the sun you wird green monster thing !

[@Sebbe1]

+Eepu The amount of you people I have sent to their deaths in the great darkness of space.

[@The_RoboDoc]

+SebMeister l know that ksp is a great game and not only you did that

[@TheOneAndOnlyLewis]

The Ocean isn't real!

[@theblueberryfarmer2486]

idiot

[@spicybeast1018]

+The Blueberry farmer calm down he might be joking

[@davidp2352]

The ocean is an inside job! It's a hologram created by the US government to store their aliens, UFOs, Elvis Presley, Tupac, JFK and Hillary Clinton's emails and speech transcripts!

[@TheOneAndOnlyLewis]

David Dautintuser And Half-Life 3, obviously....

[@Chauchatness]

lool

[@flibujo]

Where and When is the livestream?

[@BruhHowDidIGetHere]

Where can I find the damn live stream he mentioned? or where i can find the new animals

[@glenbentley3129]

+Bruh Its in the more info section under the vid above the comments just click show more...

[@Dio____Brando]

where can i watch the livestream?

[@tuta123seb]

the ocean floor and its creatures are cool

[@kairon156]

Moon for sure. the thought of being in a sub while water is trying to crush you is worse than being in a space craft with the danger of vacuum outside.

[@tobiofawesoness]

I want to see this live stream when and where can I find it?

[@uhohhotdog]

Look in the description

[@rocketman1058]

Why did you remove the video on overfishing?

[@aafish804]

The moon - barren land full of rocks. Ocean floor - variety of different unknown species, and maybe even abiotic material that can only be formed and found there. Sure low gravity sound fun an all, but it get boring after a while, especially if that’s the only thing.Plus the ocean floor would be like almost the same. Kindave.

[@shadowcrawler1520]

Moon: "Oh look! A rock!! Another rock, holy cow is that another rock??@ Ocean floor: "Is that a glowing f*cking squid? A ghost shrimp, there are transparent fish? Hell yeah!!

[@kriwient]

because of the pressure i said it before watching the video

[@Annah210]

Is that Trace on your T-shirt?

[@malignor9035]

Y'know how it's not good for us to be exposed to the vacuum of space? Yeah... deep sea critters and the surface.

[@yaygerrr562]

I do have a question. Do we have enough information/evidence to predict what sea life looked like in the Bathypelagic Zone during the dinosaur age?

[@gingergamergirl98]

Probably fairly similar. Or at least on the same level of weirdness :P

[@MegaFactsYT]

i know that this is a very old comment but has the area is very secluded which means that the individuals that live there are very different from the ones we are used to so the species rarelly go exctint (because they arent affected by lack of food due to our fishing for example) such as the frilled shark so we kinda have evidence that sustains that theory hope i could clear things out for you

[@AliRaza-es5lu]

Damn, awesome

[@jacksquat1004]

Would I want to go to the bottom of the abyss or the surface of the moon? The bottom of the ocean abyss might yield a lot of money if you know what to look for. Sunken ships would be the first thing to explore, if you know it's never been touched because of the sheer depth then there could be gold or silver still sitting in the cargo. If you're going deeper than anyone else has gone there is also the possibility of analyzing new rock structures and canyons, which might have quartz veins and loose gold nuggets just lying all over the place/lodged in cracks etc. Have a pressure nozzle on your submersible that can spray all that loose sediment out of the way. Lots of people already dredge Alaska's coast, because of the glacial activity carving through the land and into the ocean. All that gold doesn't just sit up there, there's no way, it must be pushed deeper by the current over time all the way to the bottom.

[@luka3678]

The thumbnail gave me chills 😁😞

[@possiblar5083]

same

[@ndutone]

Ocean floor!! Not trying to find my foot print by getting ahead of my self!!

[@SplitSniper7]

Did I miss the part where we can watch the live stream?

[@uhohhotdog]

Look in the description

[@hurricane_3333]

Why do lights and sounds get more intense with headaches/migraines?

[@confroz]

Hey DNews why do i hold my breath when in pain?

[@delaneyf1121]

I would go to the ocean floor, although it would be terrifying..

[@chrokeii]

I like Julian. I hate the other hosts. Julian is very factual and easy to listen to. The others like to sneak their opinions into videos sometimes which i find annoying, and they like to do weird things with their voices.. Fire the others and just have Julian host the videos from now on!

[@RJTheHero8]

I got a question I'd liked answered: Why do I see patterns and shapes when I close my eyes? And why is more pronounced while falling asleep?

[@CorneliusButtknuckl1]

Pretty sure they're called phosphenes and I'm pretty DNews has a video on it.

[@dangiscongrataway2365]

I want to know also!

[@BlackLight7Gaming]

+CorneliusButtknuckl1 prove that youre preety

[@BlackLight7Gaming]

+BlackLight7 pretty*

[@kilderok]

+RJTheHero Drugs.

[@BrianH1988]

"This live event has ended." Well, so much for 24/7 coverage.

[@davidcampos1463]

Did evolution slowly evolve down into these depths? Also how deep is the baseline depth for life to start? If evolution comes up out of these depths, will there be fossilized links or a evolutionary tree?

[@dominikjuchniewicz7465]

definitely would go for ocean floor

[@nothingtospiffy1104]

how powerful is thoughty2's wink?

[@DarnellHendeason-dk3uw]

So did this all come about by chance or was it designed?

[@kopel1586]

Can someone please give me the link for the livestream?

[@uhohhotdog]

It's in the description

[@siegturtle2335]

Those shrimps clustered looks like a demon tower from kh3. Maybe this was the inspiration?

[@autumn12y17]

What happens to the garbage that finds its way to the bottom of the Mariana Trench? I know pollution has a negative affect to any ecosystem, but to one with scarce food, extreme pressures, and little to no oxygen, this has to have some sort of major effect.

[@ShockDD]

That shirt :D

[@henrysederoff4012]

Good

[@cynthiadefillippi3749]

2 questions: I don't get why an eel shape is better at withstanding pressure than something like a ray. Could someone help? You say the pressure at the bottom of the ocean is 600x that of earth. Is the pressure an organism feels from the up/down axis the same as it feels on it's sides?

[@EvanWantsSoup]

+Cynthia Goodman a ray has a lot of surface area on its body that all the weight of the water above them would push down on, but an eel is thinner

[@cynthiadefillippi3749]

+EvanWantsSoup I guess my confusion is because I see both eels and rays as 'flat', just along different axes

[@BENBOBBY]

+Cynthia Goodman The main pressure acts in the direction of gravity (down)

[@EvanWantsSoup]

Cynthia Goodman i guess that just saying pressure is a little misleading, but the pressure just comes from how heavy the water on top of them is

[@redcats.3057]

Is that Trace on that guy's T-shirt?

[@gadielgonzalez2755]

Okay i have a question. Why is it that the discovery KZbin channels are better than the actual tv channel as of right now?

[@melkerper]

I dont get why high pressure is a problem. If you have the same pressure inside the body it should be fine right?

[@wakakhalifa18]

Is it me or is this Guy's eyes moving further apart? Just Kidding great video.

[@GHILLIEDUDE]

i would travel to the ocean floor i would not like to go to space because you can go in any direction forever and that would scare the hell out of me

[@willowpuge7138]

It's honestly terrifying to me that we know more about space than we do about our oceans and the life inside it.

[@user-cl1vx7ft3y]

i cant stop lookking at his eyes

[@Troygdesign]

That Twilight Zone reference!!!!

[@Slurm_Daddy92]

The Scary Door..

[@sivicslady9882]

Yay! Marianas🌴

[@iyerviking]

I think I've seen this guy on The man in the High Castle.

[@buxxbunnii9010]

I now have nightmares...that's why I always stick to a pool

[@DancingTiger]

Have scientists mastered CRISPR Cas9? last time I check they couldn't use it on multicellular organisms like humans. Have they found a solution for that

[@veggie88]

I don't know what's more alien looking. those fish or the hosts eyes.

[@mrboni5]

"This isn't your average everyday darkness, this is advanced darkness!"

[@lalianzamisailo191]

What about the viperfish

[@matreyia]

Moon....hands down moon dude.

[@luspearsoram1507]

That is interesteng. There is some really wierd stuff down there. I think those fish are ugly. When I try to think of the prettiest fish, what comes to my mind is the squirrel fish. It is colorful and adorable. Ironicly it does have a deep water relative, called the flashlight fish. They don't look too bad for a deep sea fish. I am surprized you talked about the reproductive habits of angler fish. O_o I think I would rather go to the deep sea than go to the moon. I have an obsession with animals, and the moon is too dead for my taste.

[@kevinbaboolal8089]

wow still no word on pineapple house down there

[@biltemamiesruless]

Why is nobody talking about the bioshock refrence at the beginning

[@heyy13]

Defiantly the bottom of the ocean. My partner would be horrified to hear that because she loves space. But the ocean is amazing.

[@lorekeeper2190]

So... Cthulhu Exists and we can hunt it all monster hunter?

[@FrancoCarrara237]

Anglers look like something directly from our nigthmares.

[@poolcezanne8259]

I feel like Ed Sheeran is looking at me, they way this guy look at the camera :D

[@rego52003]

cool

[@Sarah.Riedel]

I'm pretty sure they observed a flatfish on the trench floor though 😮

[@sensufr219]

He's looking at a screen or something constantly if you look at his eyes its on the left side of the camera from his angle.

[@CocolinoFan]

Here is the LINK for the stream: oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/media/exstream/exstream-full-res.html

[@SuperZarrabal]

To the Moon of course!!

[@blackghostvs]

Where is test tube?

[@man_on_wheelz]

Well... now I wonder what a blob fish looks like while in the abyss

[@FatherUno]

Oh my God my imagination 😱😱

[@RedForeman]

Kim kardashian

[@Ziggurat1]

Moon!

[@midgettiger6389]

Is that a picture of Trace on his shirt? 😂

[@sharkfinbite]

I thought marine life didn't worry about being crushed under water... because they have water already throughout their body more than land animals therefore the pressure is more equalized. Now you're telling me they can be crushed?

[@NaderR]

They might look normal if he get used to them.

[@ciangargan]

THEY LOOK EVIL CAUSE THEY'RE CLOSER TO HELL REPENT MY BRETHREN THE END IS NEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SherwinSeby]

Cian Gargan No

[@ciangargan]

+Sherwin Seby I'm messing in case you took that literally 😂

[@lollsazz]

They're probably ugly down there because... they can't see each other --> less selection pressure on physical looks :P