Marine Life is always interesting and mysterious to travel to, i wanted to learn about the marine sea creatures that always makes me wonder how weird they could get, that's why i share them, to learn too.
Yes, i am talking about some of the largest marine sea creatures out there. And you might be right when pointing out that i probably misjudged them for being the largest of their kind when i surely has not seen them all yet. But i do believe them for being what they are, if any of you happens to know larger than what i presented here, you are free to contact me, and i will kindly update my post for everyone, because that sure will make me even more happy, you know? To actually find out there are even larger creature than i already knew, that would have been awesome, in fact, i am waiting eagerly for someone to telling me that, but even i'm sure that for the moment these are it.. These are the current largest, so in the meantime, let's just enjoy the feast for your mind and eyes. Check them out below.
Some people might take it step by step by going from the smaller large creature to the largest one, not me, i will surprise you by ordering them randomly, you will have to judge for yourself which is the largest marine sea creatures by reviewing each and every one of them below.
Oarfish
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Oarfish
The first i would like to present to you is actually more of a longest rather than largest marine sea creature, but hey, it should count too, right? What's real is that the ribbon-shaped oarfish is rarely seen, but when it is seen, it is impressive. At more than 50 feet long, 600 pounds heavy, and with a penchant for lurking near the surface of sea waters when in distress, many believe that oarfish might be the reason behind sea serpent tales of old.
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Oarfish
The best time to catch oarfish is to wait until they are searching for food, since normally they live between depths of 600 and 3,000 feet.
Giant Stingray
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Giant Stingray
Stingrays have been around since a few million years after the dinosaurs died out, and have proven to be a successful design, much like the sharks they descended from. It is the only largest marine sea creature that is shaped roundish, that's for sure.
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Giant Stingray
The giant stingrays use that tried and true ancient design, but have somehow managed to survive ice ages and even the catastrophic Toba event. They were featured on Animal Planet’s River Monsters, and despite the host’s tendency to exaggerate damn near everything, they are incredibly dangerous to fool around with, even if you don’t know you are fooling around with one. They are notorious for putting their neurotoxin covered spike completely through limbs. I guess, on the plus side, if there is one, at least they won’t try to eat you.
Giant Clams
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Giant Clams
The largest mollusks on Earth, adult giant clams permanently affix themselves to surfaces such as sand or coral reef rubble. The behemoths are capable of reaching 4 feet (1.2 meters) long and weighing more than 500 pounds (227 kilograms). They can live a hundred years or more in the wild.
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Giant Clams
Giant clams are hunted for their decorative wavy shells and their meat, which is considered a delicacy. Because they are so massive and sedentary, giant clams must be pried off their ledges with knives or other machinery.
Blue Whale
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Out There Blue Whale
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Out There Blue Whale
These giants of the deep are not just the largest marine sea creature, but it is actually the largest animals ever known to have lived, outweighing what scientists believe to be the largest dinosaurs. Thanks to a diet of krill, blue whales can grow more than 100 feet (about 30 m) long and weigh more than 180 tons. At birth, they weigh as much as full grown hippopotami. Their tongues alone weigh more than 2 tons, and their mouths can hold up to 90 tons of food. Interestingly, their throats are so comparatively small they cannot swallow a mouthful larger than a beach ball.
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Blue Whale On The Beach
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Out There Blue Whale
Because of their size and speed, almost nothing can kill a blue whale, and they have no natural predators. Humans, however, have managed to create harpoons large and powerful enough to kill these creatures, the use of which became illegal in 1966 when the International Whaling Commission banned blue whale hunting.
Portuguese Man o’ War
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Portuguese Man O' War
Often mistaken for a jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war is actually made up of a colony of organisms working together. Its tentacles can extend 165 feet (50 meters) below the surface, although 30 feet (10 meters) is more the average, truly another one to consider as longest creatures rather than largest marine sea creature.
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Portuguese Man O' War
The Portuguese Man o’ War can typically be found in tropical and subtropical open oceans. There’s no great reason to want to catch one of these guys, but if you do, a net and metal bucket will help protect you from its venom.
Colossal Squid
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Colossal Squid
At lengths of up to 46 feet, the colossal squid is the world’s largest known invertebrate. But just because it’s spineless, that doesn’t mean it can’t do some real damage. This squid’s lengthy tentacles are lined with teeth-filled suckers and sharp, swiveling hooks.
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Colossal Squid
Since a squid can cut through steel with its beak, trying to catch one is a tricky proposition. They also live in very deep, very cold waters. Luckily, they do like to eat and can be lured closer to the surface with tasty snacks like Antarctic cod.
Whale Shark
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Whale Shark
At more than 40 feet long and tipping the scales at just over 10 tons, the whale shark is larger than a bus and is the largest shark in the sea. Despite the fact that they feed by swimming with their mouths gaped open and swallowing most anything that flows in, these sharks are not aggressive and are not considered dangerous. Divers have even found them playful and say the sharks have let them hitch rides on their dorsal fins. Wow, for us who doesn't fear the dark and unpredictable of the under sea world, we could actually swim alongside this largest marine sea creature.
Largest Marine Sea Creatures Whale Shark
Because they are so friendly and often let humans swim up and touch them, these sharks can be relatively easy to trap and catch in the tropical and sub-tropical waters where they live.
We all sure know how huge the ocean is, aside from rivers and lakes, even counting oceans alone will determine that this planet earth we live in contains more water than land, scientifically saying it's about 2/3 of the whole planet is filled with water, that is the major reason why i am not sure what i presented here are truly the largest marine sea creatures out there.
You probably think you know or at least you could predicted how unusual the wild marine sea creatures could be. And then you should wait till you see how far beyond your expectations these weirdest marine sea creatures behaviors could go. You wouldn't believe it... Believe me for saying this. And now as you can see in my title, i am going to discuss with you all the weirdness of this one particular marine sea creature, called the sea starfish, as in Spongebob Squarepant's Patrick Star in real life, i mean in real marine life. I will not hide it from you that, right before i posted this article, i don't even know one bit about starfish, all i know is that they move slowly on the ocean floor, didn't even know what or how they eat, wondering probably they eat from the center of the floor facing part of it, where it is potentially having its mouth-like part of its body there. Then i thought it's time to learn, actually the truth is not like this.
Let's be honest, i am talking to myself now, ok.. It was one day in the afternoon, i just stumbled upon the TV, changing from channels to channels, and then i stopped where i saw this television program from national geographic wild, where it discuss marine sea creature's wild life, which i always interested in, and then comes this starfish, they are actually presenting about everything about this unique sea creature, so i sat, i observe, and then here i am sharing it with you all.
Starfish turn out to be well known for their powers of regeneration. An arm can break off as a defensive tactic and grow into a complete new animal. In some species, an arm will pull off purposefully to grow a new animal, serving as a form of asexual reproduction.
Starfish in action
This behavior is certainly fascinating, yet even more fascinating is the many different ways different species of starfish feed. Most starfish are carnivores and feed on sponges, mollusks, bryozoans and ascidians. In species that eat mollusks,the starfish will slowly creep over its hapless victim, say an innocent clam. Its hundreds of tiny tube feet then create a suction cup vice like grip which opens the clam and exposes the soft muscular foot inside. Having no mouth parts to help it eat, it uses its stomach. The starfish expels its stomach into the prey, thus covering the exposed mollusk with its digestive organs. Digestive juices are then excreted and the tissues of the prey are dissolved and literally eaten alive. The digested food together with the stomach is then sucked back in to the starfish.
Weird Marine Sea Creatures Behaviors - Crown of Thorns Starfish
The crown of thorns starfish is one of the largest and most unique starfish species. It can have between 10 - 25 huge arms that all contain venomous spines. Feeding on coral polyps, this menace has destroyed many coral reefs worldwide as its natural predator, the giant triton, has been hunted nearly to extinction for it beautiful shell.
Weird Marine Sea Creatures Behaviors - Crown of Thorns Starfish
Weird Marine Sea Creatures Behaviors - Crown of Thorns Starfish
Weird Marine Sea Creatures Behaviors - Crown of Thorns Starfish
The crown of thorns has interesting feeding behavior that scientists can't clearly explain. At the same time every evening they congregate together, hundreds of them arrive right on time at the designated meeting spot and then on cue of some mysterious signal, they spread out in a massive feeding frenzy, desecrating hundreds of coral colonies in a night.
Weird Marine Sea Creatures Behaviors - Crown of Thorns Starfish
Star is always interesting, there is star in the sky... and then Patrick Star, the big hollywood star, local star, achievement star, and of course the one we have been talking about the whole time, which is also one who has the weirdest marine sea creature behavior, the sea starfish. For us, it is currently the most interesting stuff, at least for the moment.
I know you have seen some of the most eye catching marine sea creatures, and that is in our previous post i aware. So now i wanna try something slightly different from before, which is to share the 5 of the rarest marine sea creatures, mostly from the deep sea if i should add. They lived on the bottom of the sea where you won't even dare to imagine even a bit, because it is mysterious, it is dark, and it is real horror. All we could think of when discussing about the marine sea creatures must be unique, mysterious, and probably scary, well... that is exactly what lies there. The sea is has the bigger portion than land on this planet earth, and it is wide and deep, very deep indeed, there is probably millions of species of marine sea creatures in there, from the tiniest to the largest one. I can't even say more things about them, let's just check them out.
Oarfish
Oarfish's Head on The Shore
Oarfish on the beach
Rarest Marine Deep Sea Creatures Oarfish
Oarfish or should i call it the real sea dragon, are large, greatly elongated, pelagic Lampriform fishes comprising the small family Regalecidae. Found in all temperate to tropical oceans yet rarely seen, the oarfish family contains four species in two genera. One of these, the king of herrings (Regalecus glesne), is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest bony fish alive, at up to 17 metres (56 ft) in length. What an animal to start our amazing marine sea creatures story, right?
Leafy Seadragon
Leafy Seadragon
Rarest Marine Deep Sea Creatures Leafy Seadragon
This marine sea creatures was found along the southwestern coast of Australia, the leafy seadragon, Phycodurus eques, uses its fins not only to propel it through the water, but as camouflage to resemble a piece of drifting seaweed.
Dana Octopus Squid
Dana Octopus Squid caught by some fisherman
Rarest Marine Deep Sea Creatures Dana Octopus Squid
This marine sea creature mesmerizes its prey by flashing it, but not in the what's-under-that-trench-coat kind of way. In an actual, literal light-gets-in-your-eyes kind of way. By emitting flashes of light used to blind their prey, the Dana Octopus Squid successfully disorients, then captures them.
Amphioxus
Rarest Marine Deep Sea Creatures Amphioxus
Amphioxus The brainless sea creature
We're looking at a rare, fish-like marine sea creature known to marine scientists as amphioxus. Widely known for being not only faceless, but brainless, these small, elusive creatures are some of the most bizarre ocean-dwellers human have ever discovered.
Frilled Shark
Frilled Shark Posing for the camera
Rarest Marine Deep Sea Creatures Frilled Shark
The Frilled shark is one of the most rarest species of sharks in the world. With an eel like body and deadly typical shark jaws, the Frilled Shark is a perfect explanation for the famous mythical sea serpent.
The frilled shark is a 'Living fossil'. This is because it was long thought to be extinct and was known only through fossils. It was until 2007 that the world once again witnessed a living frilled shark, that must truly be the ultimate marine sea creature experience. Special mention:
Loch Ness Monster
The Loch Ness Monster Illustration
Rarest Marine Deep Sea Creatures The Loch Ness Monster
While the Scottish Highlands have a history of having things appear out of the mist (is Brigadoon humor still in, or is 60+ years too much time?), it is the The Loch Ness Monster, or "Nessie" as we've come to know her, that has become the most popular Scottish Highlands' mist-dweller. The story goes that in August of 1933, the Courier published an article stating that a man had witnessed what appeared to be a dragon ... or at least, the closest thing he had ever seen to a dragon. Years passed, and evidence proving Nessie's existence (including photographs, video and even sonar) mounted. Because of this evidence, The Loch Ness Monster has been neither confirmed nor denied, that said we could also state this then, this is the rarest marine sea creature, right? I guess we all should agree and realize that it is most likely that we won't have a chance to see this rarest marine sea creatures with our own eyes, so to make it counts, at least we know how they look and how they lived, and of course to be sure that they marine sea creatures really exist.
Now that you know about them marine sea creatures below the deepest ocean generally, it's about time we share with you one or two of them animal samples, here inside our amazing collection we have filtered them into something more interesting and enjoyable treat. The photos are amazing, but unfortunately we have to admit that we didn't own them, but they are truly amazing, the marine sea creatures i mean. Judging from the appearance of this amazing creatures, you could tell that the deep sea is truly filled with so much mystery, from beautifully unique to devastatingly horrifying creatures, all of them lies beneath the deepest sea in the ocean, which by the way is the majority of this planet earth. I mean to be honest, if we were to separate them from aliens, we will need one hell of an effort to do that, because they all look the same, they maybe even be one of them, for God's sake, but only God knows, because He created them. We all just left with a choice, right? And here's my most eye catching strangest marine sea creatures:
The ocean Sunfish or more commonly called Mola Mola is the heaviest bony fish in the world, with an average weight of 1000 kilograms. The species is native to tropical and temperate waters around the globe, what a wonder of the sea world, right?
Dragonfish
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Dragonfish
Dragonfish Size
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Dragonfish Full Body
The Dragonfish is a ferocious predator despite its small size. This fish grows to about six inches in length. It has a large head and mouth equipped with many sharp, fang-like teeth. The dragonfish has a long barbel attached to its chin. This barbel is tipped with a light-producing organ known as a photophore. The dragonfish uses this organ like a fishing lure, flashing it on and off and waving it back and forth. Once a unsuspecting fish gets too close, it is snapped up in the dragonfish's powerful jaws. The dragonfish also has photophores along the sides of its body. These light organs may be used to signal other dragonfish during mating. They may also serve to attract and disorient prey fishes from deep below. The Dragonfish lives in deep ocean waters at depths of up to 5000 feet (1,500 meters). They are found in most tropical regions around the world.
Pelican Eel (Gulper Eel)
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Pelican / Gulper Eel
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Pelican Eel
Pelican / Gulper Eel
This is exactly why i previously stated that the deep sea is such a terrifying place, The pelican eel has an enormous mouth, much larger than its body. The mouth is loosely-hinged, and can be opened wide enough to swallow a fish much larger than itself. The pouch-like lower jaw resembles that of a pelican, hence its name.
Megamouth Shark
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Megamouth Shark
Megamouth Shark Stared By A Child
This shark is an extremely rare and unusual species of deep water shark. Discovered in 1976, only a few have ever been seen, with 39 specimens known to have been caught or sighted as of 2007 and three recordings on film. Like the basking shark and whale shark, it is a filter feeder, and swims with its enormous mouth wide open, filtering water for plankton and jellyfish.
Viperfish
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Viperfish
Viperfish
With a fearsome grin fit for a monster in any thriller movie, the viperfish is a real-life predator that lurks in one of the world’s most remote locations, so don't ever stop to be cautious, okay?
Giant Squid
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Giant Squid
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Giant Squid Caught
The elusive giant squid is one of the world’s largest animals, reaching a length of up to 60 feet. It is the largest known invertebrate in the world. Damn!!! I believe it could kill anyone easily, even Chuck Norris, lol.
Vampire Squid
Vampire Squid
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Vampire Squid
The vampire squid looks more like an alien to me. The squid has large fins at the to of its body that resemble large ears. The vampire squid has the largest eyes of any animal. It is a small animal, growing to a length of about six inches, but it has globular eyeballs as large as the eyes of a huge anime eyes. The vampire squid's body is covered with light-producing organs called photophores. This gives the squid the unique ability to "turn itself on or off" at will, it will be cool if we could have one of them living in our aquarium, right? These squid live as deep as 3000 feet. Unlike other squid and octopi, the vampire squid has no ink sack. The vampire squid's arms are covered with sharp tooth-like spikes. That's why it is called the vampire squid.
Biologists have gone to great lengths to describe the long-nosed chimaera, whose kind can reach five feet in length. Its stiletto-like nose reminded one of "the nose contour of a supersonic jet aircraft." Others have dubbed it "rattail," for obvious reasons. In South Africa, it is known as the "ghost shark," though it is only distantly related to sharks. A touch of the venomous spine on the first dorsal fin can kill a person, though such a fate is unlikely given the 8,000-foot depths at which this creature lives. This really makes me think how wild could this strangest marine sea creatures be?
Giant Isopod
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Giant Isopod
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Giant Isopod
The giant isopod is the largest known member of the isopod family. Giant isopods are known to reach a size of over 16 inches in length and are one of the largest members of the crustacean family. These animals are very prehistoric in appearance. When threatened, the can roll themselves into a tight ball where they are protected by their strong, armor-plated shells. Giant isopods are all over the world at depths of over 2000 feet. These creatures are thought to be abundant in cold, deep waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.
Glass Squid
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Glass Squid
Strangest Marine Sea Creatures Glass Squid
Yes, finally we could be happy at least for once, because with its polka-dot mantle and wide-eyed expression, this glass squid represents a lighter side of the inky ocean deep, what a relieve that this cute and wonderful creatures is here to complete the strangest marine sea creatures list, right? Holy ****, right? Fiuuhht... Seeing that is one hell of a ride, it is just simply extraordinary, or should i say extraterrestrial to be precise? They lived way below the sea, dark in the cold, just imagine diving in the dark with them strangest marine sea creatures makes me shivers to the spine.
