Why do most deep sea creatures look like they’re hell-spawns?
In: Biology
There are a lot of good answers here already but something I want to add (as someone who works in this field) is that I think the ‘deep sea creatures are scary and hellish’ narrative is a bit of cherry picking. [There](https://www.wired.com/2013/09/absurd-creature-of-the-week-bobbit-worm/) [are](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190808-why-do-sharks-attack-humans) [plenty](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/new-species-terrifying-looking-skeleton-shrimp-discovered-8962913.html) of scary looking animals that live in shallow regions and [there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D0eyl7-XQA) [are](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxuBwfNp2wk) [plenty](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06660-2) of cute or beautiful animals that live in deep waters.
I have a theory that everyone has at least a little bit of thalassophobia and sharing the scariest deep sea animals around helps confirm that bias.
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