Sure, the Blob Fish is well-known for being one of the slimiest and most weird-looking creatures of the sea. But we’ve never seen one that so clearly wants us to get off his front lawn.
While it looks like the kind of dust bunny you’d fish out of your old vacuum cleaner, the glass sponge has a lattice-like skeleton made up of silica filaments that it uses to filter food.
These silica-based lifeforms hook tiny crustaceans on their spines and slowly digest them. They might only be 5 to 15 centimeters long, but that’s not the best way to go.
OK, we’ll say it: The abyss has an eye problem. The Spiderfish does away with eyes all together in favour of a greeny-yellow plate on its head, capable of detecting bioluminescent prey. But can it detect love?
Brittle Stars are found all around the globe and have been around for 480 million years, despite having no eyes and no brain. It’s good to know that longevity basically comes down to twirling your fabulous arms around a clump of gonads, mouth and stomach. Give me a B! Give me an R!
Named for everyone’s favorite elephant, the Dumbo Octopus uses ear-like fins to travel through the dark waters of the abyss off the coast of Australia.
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