Someone Asks What’s The Scariest Thing In The Ocean That Has Photo Evidence, And 30 People Deliver
Over 80 percent of the ocean has never been mapped, explored, or even seen by humans. In fact, we've studied a greater share of the surfaces of the moon and the planet Mars than our own seabed. However, if that freaks you out, don't worry. There's plenty of terrifying stuff in its corners we've been to as well.
Last month, Reddit user Fragrant_Whole3328 made a post on the platform, asking others "What is the scariest thing seen in the ocean that has a photographic proof?" It immediately went viral and people have submitted a lot of creepy pictures. From the goblin shark to phantom jellyfish, here are the ones that fuel people's nightmares the most.
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The plastic patch
Actually since we have only explored a small part of the ocean theirs is probably bigger ones at the bottom from the ones that sink to the bottom
Load More Replies...that is NOT what the plastic patch looks like!!!!! "Despite the common public perception of the patch existing as giant islands of floating garbage, its low density (4 particles per cubic metre (3.1/cu yd)) prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area.Despite the common public perception of the patch existing as giant islands of floating garbage, its low density prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area." Wikipedia ciiting Philp, Richard B. (2013). Ecosystems and Human Health: Toxicology and Environmental Hazards. Particles range from microscopic to fingernail size.
The above image is after harvesting. It does not look like that. Further, a survey of plastic collected from the Great Pacific patch found that more than 50% of the plastic came from fishing boats, buoys and crates etc. not from the shore.
Load More Replies...Those pictures are fake just so you are aware. I am not trying to downplay anything the pathces are horrific and need to be fixed, but the REAL ones don't float on the surface like this.
They are underneath choking all the marine life to death.
Load More Replies...This is... heartbreaking. I don't even know what else to call it. People are so insanely ignorant and careless. I'm so sorry to my mother earth.
I saw on TV the other day about a man who built an island out of trash. He buoys it up with bags of trash. Somewhere in Mexico, I believe. This was his second attempt. His first island broke up in a hurricane.
Oh great so his FIRST island is now broken up all throughout the ocean so they let him start over?
Load More Replies...Holy s**t......that's scary because we all will end eating plastic.we are doomed because our imbecility
Are we just not going to talk about a telescope fish
They have "glass covers" that look milky when the light hits a certain way.
Load More Replies...That pic is from Smithsonian Ocean. For more info and better pics... https://www.amazinglife.bio/post/the-telescopefish-gigantura
Ty. Pandas that give information is always good to me so very very ty. :)
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The Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
BP: Nah i'm sure it'll be fine, how do we blame the public. ah lets make up some b******t about a carbon footprint that'll get em off our backs.
This picture makes me sick. All the wildlife affected and killed is devastating.
Just leave it in the f*****g earth where it belongs and stop making such a goddam mess out of everything!!
Wellll these oil spills are terrible, and oil companies are not the most conscious companies, but the amount of things you would lose by leaving it in the ground is incredible.
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Leopard seals. It’s something about their eyes. They’re large, fast, basically silent predators outmatched in their environment only by the Orca. Their jaws open to almost 180 degrees and they have a bite force comparable to a bull shark. The sound they make fills me with a very primal fear. And in the right lighting their eyes are terrifying. I think it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing thing, but instead of a wolf it’s a flipping prehistoric water monster.
Edit: I have learned more horrible facts about the leopard seal, a creature I now worship out of fear there may be one under my bed. These snake-headed murder puppies are (on average) 10-foot-long 600-pound prehistoric killing machines that see any warm-blooded animal smaller than them as prey. Females have been measured to top 11.5 feet long and weighed at over 1,100 pounds of pure, flesh-ripping terror. The corners of their extremely long mouths are permanently curved upward and sometimes they smile. Shocking no one: this is usually a sign of aggression. Nothing can erase from my mind the image of these terrible fuzzy Jeff the Killer beasts *smiling.* Their heads average 14.5 inches long (awful), with jaws that can open to 160 degrees — significantly larger and any one human limb or head (I hate this). Their teeth? Guys? Holy f**k, their teeth? (TW: slightly gross uncleaned skull)
Their lower jaw is MASSIVE, even for a predator. Leopard seal skulls and bear skulls are too similar for my liking. Seal eyes have spherical lenses (what the f**k), giving them a field of vision of about 280 degrees. With both eyes, they can see basically clearly 360 degrees. Humans have about 130 degrees of visual field, and maybe 180 total degrees of vision. If you can see a leopard seal, it has already seen you. You can’t sneak up on these (need I remind you, virtually silent when hunting) murder monsters. They’re skilled at adapting to many climates and food sources, so much so that in a world where polar bears and orcas are struggling, leopard seals are considered “of least concern” on the endangered species scale. The way they eat penguins is to essentially catch them and throw them into the air until the penguin is fully degloved. They throw penguins *out of their skin*. They also have highly developed craniofacial musculature, allowing them tongue dexterity and a powerful bite force. They sometimes hunt by just… sucking prey into their mouths underwater.
Had one who jumped into boats in BC and would threaten the occupants, causing people to stupidly give the seal their catch, which made it impossible for those without a catch to get the nasty threatening seal out of their boats. Many abandoned ship. Do not feed wild animals.
That can't have been a leopard seal because they don't live in the northern hemisphere. They're antarctic seals and they are dangerous. A 28 year old marine biologist was killed by one in 2003
Load More Replies..."Bite force comparable to a bullshark". Because the bite force of a bullshark is common knowledge. Seriously though, I loved this.
I’m more concerned with how the leopard seal THROWS A PENGUIN OUT OF ITS SKIN??
Have things that are not to Google, and this is one of them, trust me.
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Goblin Shark. Thing looks scary as hell and its jaw [jumps out and attacks]
First thought the [ ] was the usual censoring from BP. But was a YT link https://youtu.be/9q3BD7gjncQ?si=xIrq3n1OVvAoDSy2
Load More Replies...This shark lives at the very bottom of the ocean, nowhere near people. It's not going to attack anyone. You only find dead ones near the surface.
I'm half expecting it to start singing "Goodnight Mrs Calabash Wherever You Are"
I don’t know why but I remember thinking these were really cool when I was in 2nd grade and I remember drawing them on my binder and I think other places
The Lamprey is downright creepy AF!
Toothy meat noodles? Yes, they suck.
Load More Replies...They are a delicacy in some cultures. Historically Henry VIII was a fan and in present day some native American and First Nation Canadians eat them.
It is a delicacy here in the north of Spain and Portugal. It's absolutely disgusting. The "sauce" is prepared with the "thingy" that covers the fish, and the blood. There are restaurants where the speciality is lamprey, and it's a very expensive dish. Just in case the photo is not enough to give you nightmares, another little fact about this creature: it's a parasite which attaches itself to other fish and drinks their blood, like a tick.
Load More Replies...These things just suction cup on to you. Cookie cutters will bite out a big hunk of your flesh. :)
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The tongue-eating louse. A parasite that eats the tongues of fish and then just hangs out in their mouths.
Omg it gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it
Load More Replies...Scientific name: cymothoa exigua. It changes sex and eats the tongue, proceeding to pose AS THE FISH’S TONGUE. They mate in the host fish’s gills and have a marsupium like a goddamn parasitic underwater kangaroo! These lame excuses for an animal are the result of God having leftover parts and stitching them together
I remember seeing these on TV when I was younger (6-7) and being terrified of one of these chillin in my tongue.. never occurred to me that we don't live near water and I uh- I'm not a fish-
Can it happen to humans? What if it evolves and becomes like mono???
I'd s**t myself if I happened upon a spider crab
I wonder if they actually taste good though? I could probably only eat a half dozen or so
Spider crabs are harvested for food. In Japan and in Australia.
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I remember one of these emerging from the sea when a diver held it over his head for a laugh. A laugh was not what he got.
It reminds me of the long armed/legged alien from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Nah. The scariest thing to me is falling into a shoal of Humboldt squid. They hunt in packs (and can easily just think ooh human=food) and wrap their powerful arms (with 100-200 hooked suckers) around their prey and then bite down with this bone-crunching beak They grow to about 2.2m and 50kgs. And the worst part is that squid don't really care or seem to notice if the prey is still alive. And adult humans are usually too much to fill a squid stomach. Imagine getting a leg eaten off and then released only to descend lower and either have the process repeat with another squid or to slowly drift downward into the abyss Oh yea I guess you just drown at that point. But imagine you got gear or something. Terrifying. The Humboldt Squid is sometimes called the Red Devil.
Yeah, they will go after divers and drag them down. Or bite off hunks of flesh. There are some videos on YouTube if you want to be even more terrified. :)
Load More Replies...I think most predators don’t care if their food is dead, as long as it isn’t escaping
You'd be surprised. Live prey can be dangerous; plenty of predators make sure their meal is dead before digging in.
Load More Replies...Okay, but isn't it ... I don't know, vain, that we would dare to think that something wouldn't consider us prey.
Not really, a lot of the predatory animals we're used to don't consider us prey unless they're ill,injured or starving. Predatory attacks from most of the carnivores and omnivores we're used to such as bears(barring polar bears) and mountain lions/lions are incredibly uncommon with most being territorial attacks!
Load More Replies...I saw a documentary where they were trying to research the reasons behind the spread of these squid along the western coast of America. They are almost impossible to keep alove for any length of time in captivity, so they captured a female and tagged her with a camera hoping to recover the footage later. As soon as they released her into the water she was immediately torn to pieces by the other squid.
I've never wanted to really. I've thought about it couple times then there is stories like this. And I just say not in million years.
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Caves in icebergs that constantly change while you are inside them
Claustrophobia✅ Thalassophobia✅ Scared of Caves? Underwater caves? Underwater moving caves????😬
For me personally, ANY Anglerfish. Black Seadevil Anglerfish
She, to be exact. Male anglerfish are much smaller compared to the female, if he find a mate he will attached himself to her and basically becoming her sperm sack.
Load More Replies...The ones that look like this are female. The males are tiny. And if you want to be grossed out you should look up how they mate! :)
That is some ugly soup! We're not getting in the WET just for that thing!
Look! He even has a little torch! I never knew fish could even light bonfires at those depths.
That's a female Anglerfish. The much smaller male attaches himself to her for life and basically becomes an appendage of the female.
Who on earth saw this fish that decided to cook and eat it?
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"The frilled shark” discovered in Awashima, Japan. It inspired the second form of Shin Godzilla, which is also pretty unsettling.
It looks like its got legs, and it's just moseying around in the ocean.
The frilled shark is one of the two most ancient shark species. If you think that normal sharks have been around for a long time, frilled sharks have been around for even longer.
I damn well told y'all Shin Godzilla's a fish(shark but you get it). His eyes never change in size in the film either, which really illustrates how colossal he gets. Anyway, Shin form must be protected at all costs, just a baby.
Siphonophores. Not individual organisms but colonies. by their 'design' no two will look *exactly* alike, & some are quite gorgeous, but others look like an artist render of Yog-Sothoth
But how do they know which bit to be? Do they take turns? Do some always hog the good bits? Is there a roster? ‘Monday legs / Tuesday a**s’?
Load More Replies...Is it already Halloween again? Seems like we just had it.
Beware the humble bluebottle, the most common and best known siphonophore, its sting is ferocious.
Yes! I swam into one once. Or it swam into me. The pain was excruciating.
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Not the biggest or maybe scariest, but I'd argue the - Cookie cutter shark. Is the most ghoulish and depraved - using razor sharpe circular teeth to bore a gaping hole in its victim. Like something from a SAW movie.
Iirc these creatures were first discovered when the US Navy couldn't figure out why their super secret sonar absorbing coating on their newest submarines kept failing. They did an inspection and found circular holes sliced into the rubber coating as if by a razor. After some time they figured out it was this Itty bitty shark that effectively disabled their multi-million dollar sub!
They take chunks off anything they fancy. The areas they are found in, it's common to find all sorts of creatures with scars from the cookie cutter.
They've been known to attack the radomes on submarines because the electronic emmisions (look it up). I had one stalk me while diving off Guam. If I hadn't seen it...
My friend was talking about diving but now after this article, I'm not so sure about it.
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The colossal squid takes some beating... we have never seen one alive, presumably they live too deep to be spotted, but dead ones have washed up or been [cauight accidentally]. On hooks laid out for other fish. Up to 14m long and half a ton in weight they are bigger and meaner than the 'Giant' squid, big enough to prey on sperm whales, which we know because whales bearing gnarly scars from their beaks/hooks have been recorded.
I thought that the collosal squids were the prey of sperm whales and that the scars were just the squids attempts at fighting back, with the squid rarely winning (could be wrong tho)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this is outdated, we have recently caught footage of a live one
i think so but it could have been a different kind of squid, not sure but i remember it was freaking huge
Load More Replies...In July 1972, the trawler “Elisabeth” was fishing for cod in Newfoundland, on the Flemish Cap Bank. The crew launched the nets at a depth of 130 meters and when they raised them they were surprised by the appearance of a giant squid, measuring 8.20 meters. meters in length and 207 kg in weight. At "Aquário Vasco da Gama" - Lisbon - Portugal. AquarioVas...8ce3a0.jpg
Meanwhile, the pile of nets in the background of this picture looks like an even bigger monstrosity
Vampire squid
Vampire squid are cute, tiny squid that live at ridiculous depths and are a beautiful shade or red.
Vampyroteuthis infernalis is one if my favorite deep sea creatures! So cool looking and completely harmless. (One of) The only known cephalpods to not eat live prey and they look super cool when they flip inside out and show their (not sharp) spikes! Check it out! https://www.naturalworldfacts.com/deep-sea-wonders-2/the-vampire-squid
Not great pictures, hard to see the terrifying spikes (fangs?) on each tentacle.
Phantom jellyfish I think are harmless, but they look terrifying and occupy a lot of space
This MF has always fascinated/freaked me out. The Barreleye fish
Its the look on my husband's face when I say I'm only going to get one thing at Target
The 2 green lumps in the head are it's actual eyes. They can only see up above them.
Semi-transparent masks are not my personal preference.
I find the Barreleye fish absolutely fascinating. It’s eyes INSIDE it’s head, which is transparent. How in the name of evil custard did this evolve? I love them.
One of the only known creatures to evolve eyes like this! Constantly looking up THROUGH its transparent head! Cool!
Yup. I remember learning about these a few years ago... I doubt I'll ever forget.
Giant sea spider in Antarctic waters Polar gigantism is a hell of a thing
Not really closely related to spiders. The scientific name is pycnogonids. They are all legs and very little body. The number of legs is usually 8, hence the name, but sometimes 10.
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Mantis shrimp. We're so freaking lucky these things don't get very big.
What freaks me out as a diver is this guy can crack my mask glass. Which is why we don't stick our faces into crevices. You never know what is waiting.
He does!! He also reminds me of those guys "yyeeeeeepppppp yep yep yep uh huhh uhh huh"
Load More Replies...Is it weird I think it’s sort of cute! Then again, I think a lot of weird things are cute
I mean, it can destroy a small part of you.
Load More Replies...Inadvertently covered the burrow entrance to a mantis shrimp in a coral reef while diving in Baja. The punch it delivered to my hand was astonishing! Left a red spot on my palm even with a glove on. (and it startled the s**t out of me)
I think so too! And they have the world's most complex visual system. They see colors we don't even know exist.
Load More Replies...Float like a butterfly, sting like a mantis shrimp with .22 caliber force punches...
Magnapinna squid. This thing is wild. Caught on camera at a drilling site.
No idea why the down votes but I got rid of one..
Load More Replies...I was looking at it the wrong way and it looked like a fish with a whole bunch of stringy things coming out of its mouth.
Noooo why would you do this to me. I see it too now and I wish I didn't..
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Googly eyed stubby squid. You’re welcome for the nightmares
So is the blue ringed octopus. Which is small, adorable, and deadly.
Load More Replies...That means it would fit in an aquarium! A cutie squiddyarium
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Bobbit worms. They look like something out of a hell dimension, they range from 4 inches to 10 FEET long, and their jaws are so powerful that they can snap fish in half. And what’s worse about them compared to a lot of the answers in this thread is that *you can end up with a Bobbit worm in your at home saltwater aquarium by accident*. They like to live in holes of large rocks, which are also popular among aquarium enthusiasts to use as decor, or hide inside the substrate at the bottom of an aquarium. As they are ambush predators who are mostly active at night, you probably won’t figure out that there’s one inside your aquarium until you notice fish have started to go missing. These worms are almost impossible to get rid of out of your large aquarium rocks, as they can cling so tightly to the hole they’re in that you can’t pull them out. They’re also really good at hiding in small spaces. If you tear the worm apart trying to get it out (which is pretty easy to do) the leftover part inside the rock hole can regenerate into a new Bobbit worm. ETA: As to why an aquarist doesn’t just boil the rock/bake the rock before putting it in their tank to prevent Bobbit worms- The rocks the worms hitch in on are called “live rocks”. These rocks are from the ocean floor and contain microorganisms, bacteria, algae, coral, and invertebrates that help make the tank water healthy and stable. So anything that would kill the worm beforehand would also kill all the beneficial organisms on the rock, thus defeating the purpose of buying an expensive live rock. By the time they’ve figured out a Bobbit worm got into their tank it might have been weeks or months since the rock got put in (as Bobbit worms hide during the day and hunt at night). At that point the worm could be anywhere in the tank.
Bobbit ! Lorena Bobbit cut off her husband's penis. These do look like a cut off penis. Or is it because they will cut off your finger?
Congratulations on managing to link two absolutely unique facts into a cohesive sentence
Load More Replies...There is a fantastic thread on an old aquarium forum, detailing a guy trying to get the bobbit worm out of his aquarium. Honestly, it's like something out of looneytoons. He was setting traps for it, trying to kill with superglue, and so on.
*Takes notes* Do NOT put finger inside of a bobbit worm. *edit for spelling
Reminds me of that scene from King Kong. I have to fast forward through that part, it's really disturbing.
Yes!!!! It dose look like one of them things! 😱
Load More Replies...10 foot worm emerges from aquarium at night to eat the leftovers in the fridge.
The irukandji jelly fish. It’s tiny (1-2 cm in diameter) but is extremely venomous and can even be lethal. The worst part is that you don’t feel an extremely painful wound at first. It’s about 10-40 minutes AFTER they sting you that you start feeling anything. A tiny jellyfish small enough not to see it and land you in the hospital with the possibility of death? No thank you. Some of the symptoms: back pain, diffuse muscle cramping, nausea, vomiting, profuse diaphoresis, headache, anxiety, agitation, nausea, vomiting, and piloerection
I had to look that last word up. It's goosebumps for anyone else that don't know.
Thank you new fact just learned about what a word means
Load More Replies...I saw a documentary where 2 ocean researchers got stung by these things. It showed them in the hospital, and there are NO drugs doctors can give you that will stop the pain. It's agony and you just have to endure it. Morphine, etc. won't even help.
That would be "extreme sweating" and "goosebumps", for people who aren't medical nerds.
I was hoping the irukangji would show up here. Tiny, cute, deadly, and you scream in pain while you're dying. If you must go swimming with irukangji, wear full body hosiery.
Hands down Sea Lampreys. These creatures haunt me. They are the most horrific thing I've ever seen
Reading it IN BED after having trouble getting back to sleep was also a BAD IDEA.
Load More Replies...Somehow this blows my mind and I'm not sure why
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Shape shifting creature found in the bottom of the ocean.
Marine biologist Bill Austin has suggested it is likely a comb jelly (ctenophore).
Wow. Haven't seen this before. Normal comb jellies are usually transparent and often come covered in tiny flashing lights.
The bottom picture remind me of some type of a alien ship.. Maybe out of Star Wars movie.
It changed from the look in the top pic to the shape in the bottom one in about 30 seconds.
the bottom picture reminds me a bit of a sea walnut. something I became absolutely enchanted by after seeing them in an aquarium. they're beautiful to watch. had to be dragged away to go and look at the "more impressive" things than these tiny shinies.
Great Lakes shipwrecks. For some reason, they are creepier when they are more perfectly preserved. So friggin cool but also scares me
Dang it! It'll take me hours to get the song out of my head now!
Load More Replies...I've never had a desire to explore a shipwreck. Putting together the words "ship" and "wreck" just tells me to stay away.
There are a lot of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, I'm pretty sure most of them are in Lake Superior, if my memory is correct.
It's incredible to think of the Great Lakes like this. The biggest lake I've seen in person in s either Lake Apopka (FL) or Lake Taghkanic (NY).
Why you divin in the Great Lakes. That's Cthulhu's bathwater. Stay outta there.
I submit for your viewing pleasure, or horror, The gulper eel
The gulper eel, not an eel by the way, has the unique distinction of being able to eat animals that are very much bigger than it is. That jaw opens all the way and it swallows it's prey whole.
😱 can I see squishy one more time. Be careful squishy he'll get us both!
Load More Replies...Whom is it gulping? Today on Soup For Cats: when the soup eats you.
This eel looks so cool. It can balloon itself. This channel also has that googly eyed stubby squid video. https://youtu.be/iT_EMKl2A3Y?feature=shared
And they're tiny. We don't have a banana for scale, but this guy would probably fit comfortably in a large drinking glass.
A giant squid. One of these can supposedly take down a small whale (not an adult sperm whale… those actually feed on these guys). A person would barely be a snack.
All these photos remind me why I don't swim where I can't see my feet! Even lakes have huge catfish.
Zara has some strange relatives. But then, who doesn't?
I sort of forgot about her, I wonder where she is
Load More Replies...Okay, I'll point out the obvious. Sperm Whales HUNT the big squids. All the sucker prints on whales are from squids that are thrashing around as they're being eaten.
I can’t understand why the black scabbard is not here. I live very near to a Portuguese restaurant and they have around 40 main courses. This was the first thing I ate there and it was amazing. Then I got home and googled it. I still have it every time I go but I never want to meet one.
I think someone's getting confused between the relatively common Giant Squid, nowhere near that sort of size, and the Colossal Squid already mentioned further up, and probably also with the almost-mythical Gigantic Squid which is believed by some to exist (and to have inspired the legendary Kraken) but for which there is no photo or any other physical evidence.
This image is a frame from a video taken by Japanese researchers. For something really frightening, watch the video as it thrashes around.
I saw a preserved one once, at an aquarium. it was huuuuge.
SERIOUSLY, People? All these entries, and *No One* posted a picture of a human swimming in the ocean, simply titled 'Scariest thing in the ocean? Man!"
I was expecting to see a riptide. My son almost drowned in one.
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Great white sharks. Let’s not overthink this.
Sharks are fascinating creatures. They can be scary but never deserved the reputation they got after Jawa
Jawas are scary creatures, don’t really look like sharks though
Load More Replies...The author of Jaws, Peter Benchley, said he regretted writing and releasing the book which caused people to see these beautiful creatures as enemies. We are the ones that go into their homes and act surprised and enraged when they bite you. When willnhumans learn to leave other life alone?!
TRIVIA: Why was the shark in Finding Nemo named Bruce? Because that's the name Spielberg gave to the mechanical one in Jaws.
Load More Replies...Most of the time their bite is exploratory rather than hunting but we are made up of pretty weak structures so we damage easily. I'd be more afraid of Bull Sharks those things are a******s and they can survive in any type of water, their testosterone levels and bite force are the highest in the animal world.
Incredible, beautiful, fascinating, swimming with sharks (not necessarily great whites) is on my relatively short bucket list.
There's a very interesting Slate article from last year on the coming future of Great White-human interactions. Until I read this, it hadn't really hit me that a century ago, before shark populations crashed, *most people in the Western world couldn't swim.* https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/shark-attacks-new-york-east-coast-reasons-science-risk.html
Sharks get such a bad reputation but overall hippos on land are ten times more dangerous. Some sources say, on the other hand, that close to 200 sharks are killed by people EVERY MINUTE.
Technically sharks would never eat you. All they would do is chew you up a bit.
Industrial fishing boats should be on this list, kill more than evening else on this list.
I noticed that. Also missing are yellow bellied sea snake (deadly venom and common in all tropical waters) and the cone shell with it's venomous fish-killing harpoon.
Load More Replies...If you're reading this before bed, please now go watch some cute kitten or puppy videos. You'll thank me later when you don't have nightmares tonight. :)
My choice - the Box Jellyfish. By the time you notice, you are living your last minutes. Yes, this and the Irukandji. Box-jellyf...darian.jpg
This has been my favorite article in a while! Marine biology is so incredibly fascinating! The closest thing to extra terrestrial life we are likely to find in my lifetime. I wanted to be a marine biologist as a kid but was scared off by the calculus required for the degree. Ironically I am now graduating next semester with a degree in robotics engineering!
No mention of stonefish? They're scary as hell: dangerous AND invisible.
I'm surprised piranah teeth aren't on this list, cause depending on the genus their teeth can look exactly like human teet
Piranhas actually don't damage humans very often, and when they do, the injuries are only minor. I owned a few piranhas over the years.
Load More Replies...No Wolf Eel? I was a commercial fisherman around Alaska for a decade. They are terrifying!
Industrial fishing boats should be on this list, kill more than evening else on this list.
I noticed that. Also missing are yellow bellied sea snake (deadly venom and common in all tropical waters) and the cone shell with it's venomous fish-killing harpoon.
Load More Replies...If you're reading this before bed, please now go watch some cute kitten or puppy videos. You'll thank me later when you don't have nightmares tonight. :)
My choice - the Box Jellyfish. By the time you notice, you are living your last minutes. Yes, this and the Irukandji. Box-jellyf...darian.jpg
This has been my favorite article in a while! Marine biology is so incredibly fascinating! The closest thing to extra terrestrial life we are likely to find in my lifetime. I wanted to be a marine biologist as a kid but was scared off by the calculus required for the degree. Ironically I am now graduating next semester with a degree in robotics engineering!
No mention of stonefish? They're scary as hell: dangerous AND invisible.
I'm surprised piranah teeth aren't on this list, cause depending on the genus their teeth can look exactly like human teet
Piranhas actually don't damage humans very often, and when they do, the injuries are only minor. I owned a few piranhas over the years.
Load More Replies...No Wolf Eel? I was a commercial fisherman around Alaska for a decade. They are terrifying!

