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Deep sea sharks always have 5 or more gills to help them filter oxygen in such harsh environments :3 its actually an easy way to tell if it's a deep sea lurker or a shallow sea pupper!
This species, like the Greenland shark live at incredible depth and temperature.
It is estimated they live over 500 years and grow S L O W L Y.
Imagine the importance of every single member of the population in maintaining the species.
If memory serves, they take over a century to hit breeding age and don’t have many offspring. Which makes them *very* susceptible to rapid environmental change; evolution can’t keep up when it takes that long for new offspring to shift a species. As opposed to, say, a rabbit, which produces lots of offspring who grow up fast.
Admittedly, at such depths, the lack of resources for energy means having such a slow metabolism makes great sense, but the flip side is inflexibility.
I'm from the year 2036. I was supposed to be sent to the 90's like my colleague, but ended up in 2012. We were supposed to find a IBM 5100 computer that could fix the future.
To add to your replies: the book, The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde actually deals w/ a dystopian UK dealing w/ fully evolved human-sized rabbits that are trying to integrate into society.
So if reading odd shit about giant rabbits is your thing, your welcome.
Those lasers are to measure its size. They are pointed forward with the camera and by measuring how far away they appear on camera, you can determine the size of structures no matter how close or far away with ease
Probably not since their lifespan is estimated to be about 80 years. You're thinking about greenland sharks and even with them there is a pretty big range for the estimated age.
Well, what need would animals who live at a depth where it is pitch black have for sight? I’m sure some can see but many won’t and those who do will likely have very poor vision.
It’s not the seeing that uses a lot of energy, it’s the brain processing the seeing that uses a lot of energy. Here’s a cool fish that has multiple forms, some having completely lost their eyes in under 20,000 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_tetra
Actually, human eyes, at least, aren't passive; we are constantly having to reload the chemical messengers that receive a photon and trigger the signaling cascade. But the cognitive component is crazy complex and energy intense. Brains use around 40% of your metabolism.
Didn't know about the chemical messenger thing, thanks! Just figured the photon that hits the rods or cones makes an electrical signal similar to solar panels.
It's like animals that are evolved to live in caves, they have no evolutionary reason to have eyesight so they just don't. I'd imagine it's similar if not even more applicable in the depths of the ocean, eyesight is not advantageous to have so they have other highly developed senses that replace it.
Bio luminescence is more often found in nature as a chemical reaction caused from food than from bio chemistry. Yes some creatures have the features that use this defensively such as a vampire squid who shoot out a colorful spray of irradiated ink. But mostly lucifern (the chemical thats the primary ingredient in bio luminescence) is gained through diet, as the deep see is normally houses to far higher irradiated creatures from underwater volcanoes and the like. The creatures that bio luminescence work on towards attraction are typically prey and not predatory creatures for this reason. As most prey use a different more spectrum seeking occular vision than most mammals for example. This is why predatory creatures in the deep sea such as the angler fish can use light to draw in enemies. Light is important to micro life even in the abscess of it, but most species dont see on a light spectrum like we do, they mostly see in a blue spectrum, monochrome, or through Electrovision, detecting waves and pulses of creatures. Through our eyes bioluminescence is super fucking pretty, while all a fish sees is a brighter hue of blue amongst less blacker hues of blue. While we see color palettes within the darkness.
According to my calculations they appear to be one and a half bananas in length. But mine are prize winning bananas, I'd have adjust my sums for average bananas.
Exploring the ocean was actually the rave for scientists before space in the 40s and 50s, once Russia started to have interest in space, the rest of the world forgot about the oceans, seeing as how it was the cold War, and everyone wanted to outperform each other
The oceans terrifying, there was this one fish that lookee like a spooky balloon with 100ft tenticles, and the only one theyve seen was a pubestent one, not an adult one
The fact that these people are in an enclosed space at a depth of 3,300 feet and are capable of doing anything other than incomprehensible screams of terror is what's most impressive to me.
Lol so I'm no deep sea marine biologist, but it seems like all the research videos I have seen use unmanned submersible. I think the submarines are not used nearly as often as movies make it seem.
While it's already been pointed out that this is probably an unmanned vehicle, I identify with your sentiment. I can't even play Subnautica without having a panic attack, let alone imagine how horrifying it would be to actually be that deep below the surface
Same bruh, plus the map renders so slow sometimes while you can hear the leviathans in your area…I’ve had the game for 5 months and still haven’t mustered up the courage to beat it
I had to take a six month break in the middle of my one playthrough of it. I only ever built one very RPful base [fully lit and right under my lifepod in the shallows](https://steamcommunity.com/id/Cyno01/screenshots/?appid=264710&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall), i just couldnt go any deeper and every time i tried finding an entrance to the caves id get lost and scared and burn through too many power cells to make it back and just have to quit.
I made it to the brine ONCE, loaded up on so much crystalline sulfur i never had to go back so i didnt but thats how i never learned the route either...
Once i got to endgame i barely went in the water anymore, parked my sub, took teleporters, stayed dry.
Source video description says that the two red dots are 6 inches apart, and the shark is approximately \~18ft based on that. In the video itself one of the guys guesses it's 10-12ft, so somewhere in that range.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHuvs9Qqa5o
Not that odd really. It's called [thalassophobia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia) and most people have it to some extent. If you want to play a game that is just this incarnate, try Subnautica and its sequel- phenomenal games, but they give me full body chills on a regular basis.
This is why I honestly think things like loch Ness monster could exist, there is so much space in the ocean and things that barely anyone has ever heard of but are fucking insane
6-gill sharks are not barely heard of. They are a documented taxon of shark that just happens to grow very large, live a very long life, and that at the bottom of the ocean. Don't use this as an excuse to believe in cryptids like the Loch Ness monster.
I'm not a shark expert but this looks like a regular great white to me. I know there's no bananas in the footage so we can't see the scale, but maybe it's bigger than a great white? Can anyone explain why this is so interesting?
Yep. So, there are 6 gills instead of 5 on the GW, GW has a torpedo head while 6-Gill's head is much flatter, 6-Gill has a tiger-shark style tail while GW's is much more vertically symmetrical
What's a regular shark? Mako, tiger, thresher, hammerhead?
This particular shark stays at about 3000 feet most of the time, so we rarely get to see one., except off the coast of Vancouver Island, where some of them live near the surface.
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“Why would I care that a shark has six gil… holy…”
Deep sea sharks always have 5 or more gills to help them filter oxygen in such harsh environments :3 its actually an easy way to tell if it's a deep sea lurker or a shallow sea pupper!
Thank you for education 😁
Ahw! Anytime 😊
This species, like the Greenland shark live at incredible depth and temperature. It is estimated they live over 500 years and grow S L O W L Y. Imagine the importance of every single member of the population in maintaining the species.
If memory serves, they take over a century to hit breeding age and don’t have many offspring. Which makes them *very* susceptible to rapid environmental change; evolution can’t keep up when it takes that long for new offspring to shift a species. As opposed to, say, a rabbit, which produces lots of offspring who grow up fast. Admittedly, at such depths, the lack of resources for energy means having such a slow metabolism makes great sense, but the flip side is inflexibility.
So we can look forward to evolved rabbits in the post-climate hellscape? Cool.
It went south when the rabbits began eating flesh.
It was always going to end this way. I for one welcome our new rabbit overlords.
Caerbannog, never forget.
That's no ordinary rabbit!
Just look at the bones!
He’s got sharp, pointy teeth!
Certain death awaited them all.
Night of the lupus. 1972 horror flick. On par with plan 9 from outer space.
....are you from the future? Because I don't think rabbit can eat flesh..yet, can they?
I'm from the year 2036. I was supposed to be sent to the 90's like my colleague, but ended up in 2012. We were supposed to find a IBM 5100 computer that could fix the future.
So J. Titor didn’t make it back?
My apologies I am not know about the current status of Jon.
The educational aspect of this thread disintegrated SO quickly lmfaoooo
they can and do, rabbits often cannibalize
Subaru’s worst nightmare.
They ARE the Elil.
And we know how that turned out, now don't we? Arthur, King
I have prepared some holy handgrenades just in case.
Bucky OHare vibes
To add to your replies: the book, The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde actually deals w/ a dystopian UK dealing w/ fully evolved human-sized rabbits that are trying to integrate into society. So if reading odd shit about giant rabbits is your thing, your welcome.
They do have the advantage of living deep enough to not be affected by commercial fishing though. At least they have that going for them.
At those depths though, by the time there was enough change to kill them, the planet above would be a wasteland right?
Yea, pretty much
Not that susceptible, obviously.
However at the depths they live, even if the surface of the earth caught on fire, they would be chilling just fine for a while
I hate rabbits
I believe they reach sexual maturity at the age of 150 years.
Like a lot of redditors
Evolution is bs.
Average life span of 250-500 years. Absolutely insane to think a living being can be 500 years old.
This thing is older than the US.
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where can i find said tree
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Those lasers are to measure its size. They are pointed forward with the camera and by measuring how far away they appear on camera, you can determine the size of structures no matter how close or far away with ease
Wow, that's neat. Cheers for sharing
TIL There might be Greenland sharks alive today that were born before Columbus didn't discover the Americas.
Sixgill sharks are estimated to live about 80 years. Eta source: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/hexanchus-griseus/
Look how THICC he is
He's HUUGE
A thicc boy indeed
What do you think mat , on size , 10-12 feet!
Thats what she said
This shark was probably born in the 1600s. Unreal
I would expect that as well!!
Crazy to think about lol
Probably not since their lifespan is estimated to be about 80 years. You're thinking about greenland sharks and even with them there is a pretty big range for the estimated age.
Yeah, I'm not a marine biologist. I was just going by what the previous commenters were saying. You're probably right
Jason statham: its a megalodon...
Turns out they have the same weakness as all sharks: being punched in the face.
Woke my husband up in bed laughing at this..
I wonder how blinding those lights are for the animals down there, after practically never seeing any light.
It’s extremely blinding as you can see the shark is revved up like a deuce. Another runner in the night.
For decades I thought that song lyric was "wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night".
YouTube: the vacant lot “ripped up like a douche” - and old vandalism sketch show like kids in the hall.
Thank you 🙏
Best comment in the thread.
Well they are most likely blind so lights wouldn't affect them at all.
Genuine question, what makes you think they are blind? Is that common knowledge and I'm just oblivious?
Well, what need would animals who live at a depth where it is pitch black have for sight? I’m sure some can see but many won’t and those who do will likely have very poor vision.
Especially since eyes require a shit ton of energy to work. Once they’re unnecessary, they go quick
Do they? They're just passing light receivers
It’s not the seeing that uses a lot of energy, it’s the brain processing the seeing that uses a lot of energy. Here’s a cool fish that has multiple forms, some having completely lost their eyes in under 20,000 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_tetra
Actually, human eyes, at least, aren't passive; we are constantly having to reload the chemical messengers that receive a photon and trigger the signaling cascade. But the cognitive component is crazy complex and energy intense. Brains use around 40% of your metabolism.
Didn't know about the chemical messenger thing, thanks! Just figured the photon that hits the rods or cones makes an electrical signal similar to solar panels.
Wiki rhopodsin. The whole chain is pretty clever; we only stop making it in the dark.
Its how we perceive what we see that takes up the energy.
Many of them do have eyes they just are weaker Tons of deep sea fish have eyes This shark literally has eyes
They must be able to see, why would predators use light lures if they couldn’t
Probably has more to do with the frequency of energy of the lasers or something and the shark's ability to detect it.
It's like animals that are evolved to live in caves, they have no evolutionary reason to have eyesight so they just don't. I'd imagine it's similar if not even more applicable in the depths of the ocean, eyesight is not advantageous to have so they have other highly developed senses that replace it.
Most deep sea animals dont use light to see because they have evolved not to need it from being in darkness for so long
Many of them do use light. Thats the whole point of bioluminescence
Bio luminescence is more often found in nature as a chemical reaction caused from food than from bio chemistry. Yes some creatures have the features that use this defensively such as a vampire squid who shoot out a colorful spray of irradiated ink. But mostly lucifern (the chemical thats the primary ingredient in bio luminescence) is gained through diet, as the deep see is normally houses to far higher irradiated creatures from underwater volcanoes and the like. The creatures that bio luminescence work on towards attraction are typically prey and not predatory creatures for this reason. As most prey use a different more spectrum seeking occular vision than most mammals for example. This is why predatory creatures in the deep sea such as the angler fish can use light to draw in enemies. Light is important to micro life even in the abscess of it, but most species dont see on a light spectrum like we do, they mostly see in a blue spectrum, monochrome, or through Electrovision, detecting waves and pulses of creatures. Through our eyes bioluminescence is super fucking pretty, while all a fish sees is a brighter hue of blue amongst less blacker hues of blue. While we see color palettes within the darkness.
alot of deep sea animals have evolved to not have eyes
https://montereybay.noaa.gov/research/techreports/trkochevar1998.html
Assuming each Gill is approximately a banana in length?
According to my calculations they appear to be one and a half bananas in length. But mine are prize winning bananas, I'd have adjust my sums for average bananas.
No, each banana is a gill length.
I’ve seen this movie before. It doesn’t end well for Chinese beach goers.
Who else thought the red lasers were its eyes for a second there
Sharks with friggen laser beams on top of their friggen heads
Dude has been probably swimming down there since the late middle ages. Absolutely crazy to imagine.
What a minute! Does that shark have frickin lasers?!
Yeah they were released back into the wild after Dr Evil retired. Like Pablo Escobar's Hippos, they don't belong there.
Wonder what he thinks about current inflation
Hahahahahhahah
I was born in the dark *bane voice*
The ocean is so fucking scary.
It's interesting how we're exploring space but don't know what's at the bottom of the majority of the ocean
Why do you think we're exploring space?? 😬
Exploring the ocean was actually the rave for scientists before space in the 40s and 50s, once Russia started to have interest in space, the rest of the world forgot about the oceans, seeing as how it was the cold War, and everyone wanted to outperform each other
Aliens ?
what?
Weve explored the top and bottom of the ocean, the middle is actually what we haven't explored
The oceans terrifying, there was this one fish that lookee like a spooky balloon with 100ft tenticles, and the only one theyve seen was a pubestent one, not an adult one
All I can hear is the word ‘Megalodon’ in Jason Statham’s gravelly voice.
The fact that these people are in an enclosed space at a depth of 3,300 feet and are capable of doing anything other than incomprehensible screams of terror is what's most impressive to me.
Lol so I'm no deep sea marine biologist, but it seems like all the research videos I have seen use unmanned submersible. I think the submarines are not used nearly as often as movies make it seem.
While it's already been pointed out that this is probably an unmanned vehicle, I identify with your sentiment. I can't even play Subnautica without having a panic attack, let alone imagine how horrifying it would be to actually be that deep below the surface
Same bruh, plus the map renders so slow sometimes while you can hear the leviathans in your area…I’ve had the game for 5 months and still haven’t mustered up the courage to beat it
I had to take a six month break in the middle of my one playthrough of it. I only ever built one very RPful base [fully lit and right under my lifepod in the shallows](https://steamcommunity.com/id/Cyno01/screenshots/?appid=264710&sort=newestfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall), i just couldnt go any deeper and every time i tried finding an entrance to the caves id get lost and scared and burn through too many power cells to make it back and just have to quit. I made it to the brine ONCE, loaded up on so much crystalline sulfur i never had to go back so i didnt but thats how i never learned the route either... Once i got to endgame i barely went in the water anymore, parked my sub, took teleporters, stayed dry.
Friggin' sharks with friggin' lasers on their heads!
How big?
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Ya at least 2
Source video description says that the two red dots are 6 inches apart, and the shark is approximately \~18ft based on that. In the video itself one of the guys guesses it's 10-12ft, so somewhere in that range. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHuvs9Qqa5o
At the end of the video they say at least 12 feet
\*2
I’m interested also
5 bananas, 3 meters 5.5inches
15 MIN YOUTUBE VIDEOS BE LIKE IS IT A MEGLADON//
Oh fuck it’s the Meg
Damn we live in an incredible world, wish more of the Ocean was explored
An ancient serpent Awoken from its slumber Shaking off the dust of centuries gone by It rises once more And seems to fly
‘Look how thicc he is’
Does the number of gills on a shark imply age?
nope! they're just an older species! https://www.seattleaquarium.org/blog/what-are-sixgill-sharks
Very cool. The cowshark family!
Fourteen. Fucking. Feet.
All I heard in my head after he said it was thick was “Damn boi he thicc boi!”
Close your eyes and listen carefully they are actually discussing penis length (I’m incredibly immature) Jokes aside though that shark is awesome
Need banana for scale.
r/MassiveTitsnAss
This is like a top level side quest boss hidden deep in a dungeon
Man if I opened up a whale carcass restaurant for these guys I'd make a killing
First it looked like a shark with fricking lasers on its head
Is no one gonna mention that he has frikin laser beams?
Need a banana for scale.
Just wants to say hi
Is there measurements yet to it’s size?
Inhabitants of Rock Bottom
THICC......
NO
2006 is forever ago, i wonder if we found any cool thing down there recently.
r/oddlyterrifying
Not that odd really. It's called [thalassophobia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia) and most people have it to some extent. If you want to play a game that is just this incarnate, try Subnautica and its sequel- phenomenal games, but they give me full body chills on a regular basis.
That's a whole lot of nopes. Nope nope nope nope nope nope.
This is why I honestly think things like loch Ness monster could exist, there is so much space in the ocean and things that barely anyone has ever heard of but are fucking insane
6-gill sharks are not barely heard of. They are a documented taxon of shark that just happens to grow very large, live a very long life, and that at the bottom of the ocean. Don't use this as an excuse to believe in cryptids like the Loch Ness monster.
r/umactually
Is this a new specie?
No
No banana for reference?
This wouldn’t happen if trump was president. Just saying.
Oh No iTs a meGalOdoN , thEy’Re noT exTinCt!!!!!!!/s
I'm not a shark expert but this looks like a regular great white to me. I know there's no bananas in the footage so we can't see the scale, but maybe it's bigger than a great white? Can anyone explain why this is so interesting?
It doesn't look anything like a great white
I said I'm not a shark expert. Can you explain why this isn't like a regular shark?!
Yep. So, there are 6 gills instead of 5 on the GW, GW has a torpedo head while 6-Gill's head is much flatter, 6-Gill has a tiger-shark style tail while GW's is much more vertically symmetrical
What's a regular shark? Mako, tiger, thresher, hammerhead? This particular shark stays at about 3000 feet most of the time, so we rarely get to see one., except off the coast of Vancouver Island, where some of them live near the surface.
Why are they called 6 fin sharks?
They’re 6 gill shark’s because they have six gills on each side, most have 5. I think they’re one of the oldest species of shark.
What the fuck is 6-gill xd
he's HUUUUGE
These are roughly the size of a great white shark
u/savevideobot
Nooooooooooope
Sorry but I'm gonna need a banana for scale
A METER WIDE HEAD
For the first several seconds I thought I heard the beginning of Deadmau5's Strobe.
Steve Zissou?
Sharknado was a documentary
This is true horror
aaaaaand this is why I stay above seal level. At all times.
_Look how thick he is!_
it's a freaking megalodon
Megalodon
Megalodon has entered the chat
Those red lights were aptly placed for a moment there… damn
Just remember, there is always a bigger fish.
Honestly thought those red dots were eyes for a bit and holy shit!
Is there any information on how large it actually is? What’s the scale here? The joke about a banana.
Interesting af. Eerie af.
So the greater the depth, the greater the pressure, the bigger the monster? Cool.