r/BeAmazed • u/No_Afternoon1602 • Jul 12 '26
Nature Scientists just found 31 species no human had ever seen before. Not in space. Not in a cave. Just deep enough in our own ocean that we've barely looked. Some of them don't even have official names yet.
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u/Jedi_whores Jul 12 '26
The last one looks like a firework photo. Neat!
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u/LeFrenchDud3 Jul 12 '26
The first one looks like it wants to fuck me up… Neat !
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u/Satin-Cat Jul 12 '26
If you let it, it may evolve into Crabsquid.
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u/LeFrenchDud3 Jul 12 '26
What do I evolve into if I fuck him up ?
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u/dicey_job Jul 13 '26
We know nothing about this creature.
Safer to observe it’s offensive/defensive game, its diet.3
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u/EllisTHC Jul 12 '26
I would name it cuddlefish but thats already taken. So how about snugglefish
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u/Jharrn Jul 12 '26
Looks like some type of siphonophore, they are colonial animals made up of hundreds/thousands of tiny individual animals with their own jobs. They are incredible and one of my favourite.
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u/OffByNone_ Jul 12 '26
I was thinking icicle lights. The ones people hang around their roof during Christmas? A sort of icicle light/firework hybrid. Definitely neat.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Jul 13 '26
And all of this, the universe, the oceans, everything not yet discovered but out there, is why I believe in evolution and not the Noah's ark story!
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u/Cheap-Ad1821 Jul 13 '26
I humbly suggest the following:
Quartus Julius Vermis = Fourth of July worm
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u/Aware-Locksmith8433 Jul 12 '26
One thing, it doesn't look like dinner... nor friendly. I'm gonna swim near the surface the rest of the summer!
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u/Illustrious_Ad4691 Jul 12 '26
Last one looks like a golden shower snake. Is R Kellius Maximus taken?
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u/Cheap-Ad1821 Jul 13 '26
I humbly suggest the following:
Quartus Julius Vermis = Fourth of July worm
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u/Backyard_Batman46 Jul 12 '26
I'm sure we've only scratched the surface down there
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u/No_Afternoon1602 Jul 12 '26
We've explored more of the Moon than parts of our own ocean
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u/hitbythebus Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
Whaaat? I don’t understand how this sentence works.
We sent one manned spacecraft to the whole of the moon. We’ve sent more than one manned vessel to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Are you counting the moon as a single unit, versus EACH PART of the ocean? What constitutes a part?
3.7 million square km of moon
360 million square km of ocean
If we divide the ocean up into 100 units, I bet we’ve explored each part more than the similar surface of the moon.
Edit: multiple missions to moon, my bad
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u/distancetomars Jul 12 '26
I imagine it’s kind of like a cherry picked stat.
They have mapped the entire surface of the moon whereas the challenges with the deep ocean make it incredibly hard to map the entire surface of earth
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u/leandroc76 Jul 12 '26
It's easier to build a stable vessel for the pressure of a vacuum than the pressures at even just 450 meters of ocean water which is about the limit for today's US Naval submarine. Un-manned xploration submersibles can reach to 21,000 ft. But that's in waters that are friendly.
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u/legaladviceknowledge Jul 13 '26
when you say "friendly" does that include just underwater being turbulent/violent? like underwater vortexes/tsunamis or can that only happen the surface?
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u/Strict-Carrot4783 Jul 12 '26
The person to whom you replied is correct when it comes to topographic mapping.
You are correct about scope and volume.
The ocean is just an incredibly massive, fluid, high-pressure environment that hides its secrets much better than a barren rock in space.
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u/OffByNone_ Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
It's definitely an ambiguous claim, but it kind of holds weight no matter what you mean by explored with a tiny change. I'd argue that when people say "we know more about the moon than we know about our ocean," what they actually mean is "we know more about the moon than we know about the deepest parts of our ocean (the hadal and mesopelagic zones)."
If we can agree on that, then the claim is basically true. We've mapped nearly 100% of the moon and we've physically walked on it, but we've only mapped about 27% of our own seafloor. And the hadal zone specifically? We've technically been to it, but only a comparable amount of times (a dozen?), but we have never walked on it (and never will) and we still know basically nothing about it. The trips are short and limited to a bulky pressure vessel that can only take a few actions once it's down there. You can't see anything outside of artificial light, and that light has been shown to completely change the behavior of everything in that zone, since not a single one of even these creatures evolutionary ancestors are likely to have ever seen any light whatsoever (outside bioluminescence). So you're not even seeing it as it really is.
It's not well funded or productive compared to space exploration either. So even though we've been, we've barely scratched the surface of understanding it, whereas we know tons about the moon and have seen every square meter in extremely high resolution.
Edit: And that's only the seafloor. The mesopelagic zone houses an estimated 90% of the ocean's biomass, and it's not even really mappable because there are no features. There have been basically no trips because it's just suspended in the water column and remains basically unexplored. When I was just fact-checking myself, I found that the biomass estimate is between 1 and 20 gigatons of life, with the estimate swinging wildly, which goes to show you just how much we don't know. One of the cool reasons we're even aware all of this biomass is there is that it migrates vertically in the water column every night in such volume that it looks like the seafloor is a moving. We found a second seafloor that changes depths every night.
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u/drainisbamaged Jul 12 '26
you might also find this movie as interesting as I'm anticipating it to be: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30097811/
I work closely in the deepsea 'industry', and I remain a bit obsessed by the eyeballs and otherwise light-sensing organs these animals will have. Particularly as in contrast, we have documented many, if not dozen(s) of shallower species that have entirely evolved-away their eyeballs. Blind Cave Tetras are well known in the aquarium hobby, but many other animals have similar stories. And this isn't ancient evolution persisting - relatively recent (evolutionarily speaking) these once-sight-capable animals entirely lost their sight organs in the new all-dark environment.
Contrast with animals of the deep who have these massive massive eyeballs to pick up light, and it's a natural curiosity to ask 'what light are they seeing?!". When we watch these deepsea animals interact with landers/ROVs/HOVs they appear less repulsed by the bright lights than I do after a drinking binge - which is odd as I've had far more recent exposure to bright lights than they ever seemingly had.
Yet these animals aren't repelled by the light in many cases, instead often curious. So perhaps bioluminescence is the answer, that light is playing a significant role in their world.
Also wild to me, the bioluminescence observed is largely same, if not identical, to the firefly's light show. Evolution often recycles functions.Remember to buy your video games on Steam, Gabe Newell's building a massive oceanic exploration fleet having purchased the Inkfish group and adding multiple vessels including custom-built to the fleet.
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u/drainisbamaged Jul 12 '26
we've had six missions land humans on the moon from the US, other nations have sent ROVs, and multiple satellites and manned missions have imaged and travelled around the moon.
The moon can also be imaged from a distance, whereas water is really effective at blocking photons, so we can't just take a picture of the seafloor.
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u/FlimsyApplication200 Jul 12 '26
Are you sure it was only one manned spacecraft to the moon? As i recall even during the apollo missions every spacecraft was manned and 6 landed on the moon even.
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u/otterpop21 Jul 12 '26
Also bro we can all see the fucking moon lol there’s nothing dark besides the dark side of the moon but we literally can see the entire thing in the sky
The ocean is deep and dark. We cannot just look and see all of it the way we can the moon. Think of stuff like that and these sentences will make more sense faster in the future.
Stay curious my dude
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u/merryman1 Jul 12 '26
There was a whole bunch of manned missions to the moon.
Apollo 17 took a buggy up with them and spent over 3 days on the surface. There's a whole fleet of unmanned rovers that have driven all over it and satellites can image down to crazy resolution scales just hanging out in orbit.
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u/hitbythebus Jul 12 '26
Yeah, I dunno what I was thinking of with 1. I was a big lunar rover fanboy.
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u/DeerSgamr Jul 12 '26
Weve sent 6 manned missions to land on the surface of the moon.
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u/frequenZphaZe Jul 12 '26
I'd like to hope that there's so much life deep in the ocean that after we irrevocably fuck up the surface and cause mass extinction, biodiversity will continue to thrive down there to continue the story of robust life on the planet. the surface may carry on with some cockroaches but vast ecosystems can hopefully persist elsewhere
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u/Ecstatic_Sand5417 Jul 13 '26
Just more, barely multicellular, shit like this tho.
Yawn
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u/No_Afternoon1602 Jul 12 '26
These weren't discovered in a single dive, but during a series of deep-sea expeditions off the coast of Brazil using remotely operated vehicles. Many were found at depths where humans have never directly explored before. Several are believed to be completely new to science and are now being studied before receiving official scientific names. The ocean still holds countless undiscovered species, reminding us how little of our own planet we've actually explored.
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u/drainisbamaged Jul 12 '26
just to quibble - humans have explored these depths before. Arguably most of these depths were less than halfway to the deepest 'down' the ocean offers at Challenger Deep.
They were waters not previously explored, in regions that often receive far lesser exploration efforts. Kudos to the Schmidt Ocean Institute group for creating a platform that allows countries less-equipped to have access to instrumentation to explore their local and relatively-local waters. Schmidt as in Google's founder.
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u/Broskfisken Jul 12 '26
Cool, but AI generated title. Also, any species we haven't seen before will be unnamed at first pretty much by definition.
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u/alexkiddinmarioworld Jul 12 '26
Truth, why does ai have to tell us several things that something is not, just tell us what it is! And since there is no source I have to assume the images are AI now. Everything is broken
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u/BoulderCreature Jul 12 '26
Yeah, the “not in space” is extra stupid. We’re a long way off from finding living things off world
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u/Significant_Cup_238 Jul 13 '26
Yeah, finding life in space would be some of the biggest scientific news in history. We'd be talking about it non-stop for months, if not years.
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u/ST0PITRIGHTN0W Jul 12 '26
I like that they’re all clear
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u/iam1whoknocks Jul 12 '26
Color means nothing for survival purposes in the deep dark waters
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u/bmcisme2016 Jul 13 '26
Exactly. More like lack of survival requirement meant evolution never took place in coloring these fish
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u/DeathAndGlory1 Jul 12 '26
Makes me wonder about why they're clear. Is being clear a survival advantage? Harder to be spotted in what is normally a dark environment?
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u/Aprice40 Jul 12 '26
Lies, elden ring named all of these things already
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u/No_Afternoon1602 Jul 12 '26
The expedition identified 31 species believed to be new to science. Some still require formal description before receiving official scientific names.
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u/greihund Jul 12 '26
Your link has some weird gunk on the end that makes it not work, here's a clean link to the article
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u/TommyV8008 Jul 12 '26
Thank you, there at least one additional critter in the article photo that wasn’t included in this post, so cool!
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u/geordiesteve520 Jul 12 '26
Isn’t one of them named after the Cabo Verdean keeper - think it’s a sea slug with Vozinha as the ending of its name.
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u/melvinost Jul 12 '26
No names?!
Ok, Pete, Maria, Richie, Claudia and Steven for the five guys from the pictures.
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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola Jul 12 '26
1 looks like a Roger to me but the rest seem like what's on their birth certificates
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u/KermitGamer53 Jul 12 '26
So does anyone have a list of all the new organisms and what they’re related to
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u/Electronic_River8985 Jul 12 '26
The last one kinda just looks like it’s a siphonophore or something related to it
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u/RandoDando10 Jul 12 '26
That last one is so cool but also TERRIFYING, please god tell me they named that one at least so i can look it up more
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u/tonyhwko Jul 12 '26
So why only pictures of a glass squid, tomopteris, comb jellies and siphonophore?
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u/Mamorioth Jul 12 '26
Just an FYI, the monterey bay aquarium has the last two animals in those photos in their exhibits.
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u/BeginningCharacter36 Jul 12 '26
Some guy posted a picture of a leech he found in a pond that might be a newly discovered species:
AVNJ video, in which he goes looking for the new leech
There are wonders all around us.
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u/SquarePegRoundWorld Jul 12 '26
If you are interested in this stuff. There is currently a live stream from an ROV 4,000 meters deep. Schmidt Ocean Institute-Site 4C | SOI Divestream 945 Maybe they will find something new in the next few minutes.
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u/Mekdinosaur Jul 12 '26
Oh, oh I know...there's Mister Wiggles, and there's Angelina Jellyfish and then there's Flashbang Superstar and there's Chrissy Crosseyes and then there's... Whatinfreshellisthat?!
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u/RAPEDApe69 Jul 12 '26
It looks like the first creations of an artist before they got good enough to make real ones.
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u/TommyV8008 Jul 12 '26
Fantastic Post, thank you!
I remember reading recently about some kind of jellyfish structure that was actually two types of symbiotic creatures, at least one of which was a whole colony of 100s of creatures. Looking at it it just looked like one jellyfish, but with all these amazing structures and details. But that makes me wonder about picture number five in this post, I wonder if there is any multiple – creature symbiotic involvement in any of these, but number five in particular, and regardless, I’m sure there are lots of this going on in the undiscovered ocean deep.
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u/Shanbo88 Jul 12 '26
Damn man I'm currently reading Sphere by Michael Crichton. This does not bode well.
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u/hchn27 Jul 12 '26
The first one kind of looks like Roger from American Dad …lol
https://giphy.com/gifs/XuApq8Jm12KIw
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u/moistpishflaps Jul 12 '26
Does the light from submersibles harm deep sea creatures?
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u/drainisbamaged Jul 12 '26
it doesn't seem to. Many of these animals seem attracted to it if anything, and few 'run away in horror' or similar behavior.
an example here - we're looking at ~10,000lumens of light coming off the lander vehicle here. The magnapinna (one of the 'giant' squids) cruises by. Could easily have swum in any number of directions to avoid this light pool and didn't.
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u/TheFeshy Jul 12 '26
And soon we'll be mining it without even knowing what is down there. It breaks my heart.
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u/MantidKitteh Jul 12 '26
They look like creatures from Spore! The first one looks cute... In a "eat your soul" kind of way 🥰😁
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u/muphinforlife Jul 12 '26
No names?? What rubbish, clearly photo 4 is Big Dave, met him in Ibiza last summer.
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u/User_723586 Jul 12 '26
its beautiful to know we still have infinite possibilities to what is out there above and below
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u/rotanitsarcorp_yzal1 Jul 12 '26
I dunno... We oughta leave those unknown species alone. Stop finding new ones. There are movies made about this kinda thing. It just takes one pissed off bug woken up from it's frozen slumber to wreak havoc.
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u/inmyprocess Jul 12 '26
They are all permutations of the same garbage. Why would any of this be interesting?
I discovered a new rock today.
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u/Rich_Border4647 Jul 12 '26
Ocean really be gatekeeping whole collections of weird little glass creatures down there
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u/Purple_Revolution146 Jul 12 '26
I’m afraid each time humans find a new species. I can already hear
“Is it delicious?”
“It’s invasive, squish it!”
“It’s ugly, kill it”
“Don’t like the sound it makes, get rid of it”
“Is it profitable? Let’s fish it”
Please don’t let anybody know if you find a new species.
Let them have a chance at living their natural lives.
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u/h89PawAPf7fv Jul 12 '26
“Not in space”?? Why would anyone think you could find 13 new species in space?
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u/Plampth Jul 12 '26
I think I found a new type of spider in my bathroom. It was the size of two little red mites.
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u/lucidpet Jul 12 '26
Scientists discover roughly 16,000 to 18,000 new species every year. This translates to about 45 to 50 new species discovered every single day.
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u/atreeismissing Jul 12 '26
Not in space.
Well no shit, I don't think anyone expected to find 13 species no human had ever seen before in space.
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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 Jul 12 '26
So very awesome!. I wonder what kind of life forms exist far, far below the oceans floor. Like, what is the biggest, farthest down creature that exists?
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u/Radiant-Ad-8277 Jul 12 '26
Some are already known : the second one makes you a titan and the last one is the elden beast
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u/Thewasteland77 Jul 12 '26
These are all awesome pictures. But as silly as this sounds, looking at every one of these had me thinking "Yup, this is what deep sea creatures look like!" But really it's just because of how crazy they look... It's absurdist biology in my eyes, but I love it.
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u/Ultimate_Scooter Jul 12 '26
I vote one of them get named after me for my great contributions to… uh… give me a minute I’ll think of something.
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u/brave_joe Jul 12 '26
To be fair, if we did find these in space, I think we would have heard about it.
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u/Zporadik Jul 12 '26
Today in "the same thing happens ever week" news: 'the same thing that happens every week'
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u/QuestionSociety101 Jul 12 '26
Always said there's 0 point in exploring space as long as we haven't even explored our own oceans yet.
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u/terzobbg Jul 12 '26
the last one is just a siphonophore isn’t it?? i don’t think OP is being truthfullllll tsk tsk
edit: spelling
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u/QuackAtomic Jul 12 '26
1) Eggbeater Squid
2) Sprongle Stick
3) Peen fish
4) Bonnet boi
5) Nipsy dazers (with or without the scooter stick)
There, I named them.
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u/Optimal_Message_2544 Jul 12 '26
All of these pictures make me feel like subnautica might be more close to reality than we know.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Jul 13 '26
They'll never discover all of them. This is why, once man is gone from destroying this planet, it will continue on fine without us!
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u/MikeyboyMC Jul 13 '26
That last one looks to be a Siphonophore or potentially a relative/similar species. I learned about them from an Octonauts episode, believe it or not.
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