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Nov 7, 2026 20 min

The Most Disturbing Creatures in Each Ocean Layer

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Join my Discord to discuss this video: https://discord.gg/yj7KAs33hwSubscribe and activate the bell!💼 Business Mail: [email protected]— TIMESTAMPS —0:00 Intro0:06 Tongue Eating Louse0:34 Parasitic Barnacle1:17 Sarcastic Fringehead1:55 The Blue Dragon2:33 Bobbit Worm2:50 The Goblin Shark3:13 The Pram Bug3:42 Stoplight Loosejaw4:15 Sloane’s Viperfish4:41 Lerneaeopodid Copepods5:15 The Deep Sea Anglerfish5:58 Deep-Sea Siphonophores6:45 Zombie Worms7:31 The Black Swallower8:16 The Colossal Squid9:04 Pelican Eel9:31 Pelagic Abyssal Ribbon Worms10:08 Giant Sea Spiders10:46 Xenophyophores11:20 Carnivorous Abyssal Sponges11:55 The Magnapinna12:36 Hirondellea gigas13:10 Order Platyctenida13:51 Hadal Spoon Worms14:41 The Mariana SnailfishUploaded 06-07-26— FURTHER READING and LINKS —https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoidae https://siliconcanals.com/sc-c-cymothoa-exigua-is-a-parasitic-crustacean-that-enters-a-fish-through-its-gills-severs-the-blood-vessels-of-its-tongue-until-the-tongue-falls-off-and-then-attaches-itself-in-the-empty-socket-where/ https://www.marlin.ac.uk/species/detail/2233 https://allfishes.org/fishes/marine/sarcastic-fringehead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus https://www.oneearth.org/species-of-the-week-blue-dragon/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_aphroditois https://divemagazine.com/marine-life/horrible-natural-histories-the-bobbit-worm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/june/elusive-deep-sea-goblin-shark-seen-alive-for-the-first-time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phronima_sedentaria https://inverts.wallawalla.edu/Arthropoda/Crustacea/Malacostraca/Eumalacostraca/Peracarida/Amphipoda/Hyperiidea/Phronima_sedentaria.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacosteus_niger https://a-z-animals.com/animals/stoplight-loosejaw/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloane%27s_viperfish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ommatokoita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414d3559444f7a457a6333566d54/index.html https://conservation.reefcause.com/the-nightmarish-sex-lives-of-deep-sea-anglerfish/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonophore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnidaria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osedax https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-the-ocean/animals-a-to-z/whale-worm https://www.mbari.org/project/osedax-studies/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swallower https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-learning-hub/ocean-facts/black-swallower/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican_eel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemertea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagonemertes https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/100-new-ribbon-worm-species-and-counting/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_spider https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ocean-fact/sea-spiders/ https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/detail/what-the-sea-spider-genome-reveals-about-their-bizarre-anatomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophorea https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jul/06/new-to-nature-no-126-asbestopluma-monticola-carnivorous-sponge https://deepseanews.com/2006/12/carnivorous-sponge-video/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfin_squid https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multimedia/video-playlist-ex2107-bigfinsquid/ https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/688048-deepest-squid https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3419748/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6449124/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042727 https://sps.nus.edu.sg/blog/2021/07/12/dwellers-of-the-deepest-deep-a-biochemical-manual-to-surviving-the-abyss/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benthic_comb_jelly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echiura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoliparis_swirei — DISCLAIMER —Do n

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