Why do most deep sea creatures look like they’re hell-spawns?
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Because the physics they’re working with is different. Theres a lot of videos circulating around youtube of marine biologists who can’t readily identify even well known species on camera simply because of the way they move or contort themselves, like how gulper eels can inflate themselves and squirm around because living deep under water makes that both possible and a thing there are advantages to doing. Same for how large whales can orient themselves weirdly when they sleep or prepare for mating and sometimes their reproductive organs get taken for weird sea monsters by some sailors. Or how some fish can have asymmetrically positioned eyes or eyes that see through translucent skin.
All of these features are bizarre to us but make sense to those creatures because they play by laws of physics where moving in three dimensions is the norm, gravity matters less than the behavior of the water they’re in for movement, and the amount of oxygen and nutrients they can access varies wildly by much more than on land.
This is also why humans generally need lots of equipment that looks weird and a lot if specialized training to get very deep. The pressure of the ocean will destroy the human body a million different ways because the human body isn’t designed for that environment and even with equipment safety procedures need to be followed going down and coming up. But these weird creatures can spend most of their lives there because their bodies are adapted to handle it.
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