bogleech:

OH MY GOD we’ve got the FIRST EVER actual live footage of a gulper eel!!!

All previous videos have been of dead specimens floating around in tanks.

Nobody ever knew until now that they might float around with their mouth inflated like a goofy balloon like this.

It starts to “billow” mid-way through the video because of the deep sea rover’s jet stream and it puts up with that for quite a while before it finally gets too annoyed.

gallusrostromegalus:

biscuitsarenice:

“Here in the Pacific, 200 metres down, we enter an alien world… This is barreleye a fish with a transparent head filled with jelly so that it can look up through its skull.” Sir David Attenborough

Blue Planet II

Barreleye Fish! I love these crazy bastards! (If you’re wondering how the fuck that happened, so’s the rest of marine biology.  here’s the wikipedia on them)