Wow, those are some interesting pictures. I've never heard of those before, it makes you wonder what other creatures are in the ocean that we've never seen.

Humpty Dumpty.

It's Ziggy after spending too much time in the tub!

That's probably what we looked like millions of years ago. Maybe it's an unevolved humanoid of some sort. Lmao no...I guess it's more likely to be the illusive Ziggy.

Nice finds noslen. The first one looks like an evil twin of PacMan. lol. To be fair, the last one in your first post there is a Viperfish. It's not really that big... a couple of inches. But still ridiculously terrifying.

Originally posted by Yarcofin
It's not really that big... a couple of inches. But still ridiculously terrifying.

I wonder if i can purchase these anywhere on the net for my fishtank

Would be a lot cooler than piranhas that you can get at any pet store

Lol there may be some problems:

-They live in pitch black, so I'm not sure, but you may need to keep them in pitch black or they may become very disoriented/die from being exposed to light.

-Besides the pitch black, you may also need to have it pressurized since way deep down there, the pressure is much stronger than at the surface. They may be able to adjust to this, though. If you were to capture a live specimen, you would have to allow it periodic stops to adjust to pressure (Much like divers have to do) while bringing it up.

-Probably for this reason, I don't think a live specimen has ever been brought to the surface. There may be some super-scientific deepsea research facility somewhere that has some live ones kept in a darkroom somewhere.

-They are still quite unknown species. It's tough to know how they act or what they need to survive, or how big they really can get. I'd imagine we don't even know what a lot of them eat, besides cutting open the stomachs of dead ones. (Just basic care in general.)

I agree it'd be totally sweet, but it would be very difficult too. Maybe in a few decades it will be more plausible and we can all have awesome vampire fish .

d&mn you Yarc always being logical and shooting down my hopes lol. Yea i kind of figured it would be near impossible, but would be extremely cool to have one.

Very interesting. I have no doubt that there are many, many creatures residing on earth that we have yet to discover. So many places are so difficult to reach by humans, such as the deepest parts of the oceans or the thickest parts of the rainforests, that as time goes on, new species will be discovered. Who knows, maybe there really is a creature in Lock Ness

actually, judging by the shape and how it looks "deflated", im guessing the nose looking part would look something like that of a shark, the way their noses kind of stick out

Originally posted by Laurent Van Winckel
The Chimaera fish is pretty impressive in my opinion. It looks like 2 animals sticking together; the body is a fish and the beak is of course the beak of a bird, not to mention that tail and those fins.

its the platypus of the sea

That blob fish is quite a spectacle. Have any of you seen the documentary where they go down to the unexplored deep sea abysses with the new state of the art high pressure submarines?

Theyre finding all sorts of odd creatures down there. Some of the fish are completely translucent, some of them give off them have built in lighting mechanisms to produce artificial light down there.