Discover the Wonders of the Deep: Beautiful Pics of Sea Animals That Will Take Your Breath Away

#1 Leaf sheep, the adorable, photosynthesizing sea slugs.

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#2 Great googly moogly.

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#3 Meet “Inspector Clouseau,” the world’s only pink manta ray.

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#4 It’s not all bad down there.

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#5 A mother humpback whale and her calf, in a position known as “echelon.”

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#6 Meet this 90-year-old turtle!⁠

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#7 The “strawberry squid” lives in a region of the ocean known as the mesopelagic or “twilight” zone, 200 to 1000 meters below the surface. (Photo by Paul Caiger)

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#8 Stingray migration.

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#9 The cutest shark attack ever.

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#10 A pair of eagle rays gliding through the dark depths.

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#11 Sea slugs be lookin’ like they’re straight out of Ark or Subnautica.

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#12 Sitting on the edge of the abyss.

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#13 This is almost cute… Almost.

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#14 A diver taking a photo of an anaconda underwater.

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#15 Hatchet fish faces looking like the souls of the damned.

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#16 A whale shark swimming in bioluminescent algae makes it look like it is drifting through space. (Video by Mike Nulty)

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#17 The size difference between an adult sunfish and a sunfish fry.

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#18 He’s right behind me, isn’t he?

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#19 Saw fish from below.

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#20 A terrifying comparison of the tentacles of the giant squid (left) and colossal squid (right). The giant squid is meant for painful latching while the colossal squid is meant for ripping apart.

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#21 One of the few albino whales left on earth.

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#22 Giant sturgeon in the Fraser River, Canada.

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#23 A scallop that looks absolutely monstrous. The blue parts are its eyes, and it can have over 200 of them.

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#24 Sleeping sperm whales.

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#25 Best high five ever.

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#26 Picture of a leopard seal taken in the dark depths. Its only natural predator is the killer whale.

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#27 Amazon River dolphins.

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#28 We are here to appreciate the awesome majesty and incredibly cool aspects of nature.

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#29 A photo of a magnapinna squid captured by a deep-sea drilling company. They live so deep in the ocean that very little is known about this creature.

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#30 The mantis shrimp, thought to have the most complex visual system ever discovered in the animal kingdom.

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#31 This is what a blob fish actually looks like underwater in their natural habitat.

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#32 The Portuguese man o’ war.

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#33 The lizard fish. Found 8000 ft below.

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#34 This whale my wife saw while supervising a trydiver. First dive and you see a whale. WTF.

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#35 Hammerhead sharks nailing this group photo.

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#36 A killer whale jumps 15ft high to catch its prey which is a dolphin.

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#37 The ogre fish has only been spotted a few times in decades of ocean research.

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#38 Sharks kill less than 6 to 8 people, while humans kill about 100 million sharks every year.

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#39 The eye of a gray whale.

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#40 Mother, calf, and escort sleeping peacefully.

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#41 For your viewing pleasure: the viper dogfish.

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#42 The Antarctic amphipod is one of the most alien creatures to inhabit the depths below.

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#43 The Chirodectes (an incredibly rare genus of box jellyfish) seen just twice. This is the only known footage to exist. (1st post more details)

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#44 Deep Blue, one of the largest great white sharks, roams the open ocean.

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#45 Giant squid makes an appearance in Tokyo Bay.

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#46 Below a crocodile.

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#47 A Russian fisherman caught a deep-sea fish which straight up resembles a nightmare.

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#48 A cuttlefish has three hearts, blue-green blood, and horizontal vision which allows them to see behind themselves.

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#49 POV you’re a fish in the 1700s.

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#50 Rare footage of the giant squid, filmed a few miles from the Appomattox deepwater oil rig.

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#51 When a crab gets bitten by a radioactive spider…

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#52 Gulper, aka pelican eel.

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#53 Phantom jellyfish very cool, but I’d hate to bump into it. Unlikely as it lives in deep dark water.

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#54 Anglerfish.

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#55 The 18-meter sea condom.

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#56 Not everything is terrifying! The sea angel slug swims in the deep using flaps as sort of wings!

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#57 Pop: it’s Monday morning in the office and there’s an inch of coffee left.

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#58 The adorable dumbo octopus.

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#59 This red jellyfish looks like a spaceship.

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#60 I’ll be waiting for you below.

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#61 When the kite falls out of the sky while kitesurfing and you see this…

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#62 His name is Chad.

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#63 Huge loggerhead.

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#64 Deep-sea octopus broods her eggs for over 4 years – longer than any animal. Happy Mother’s Day, everyone!

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#65 Footage from the Mariana Trench. 10,792 meters (36,000 feet) below the ocean surface.

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#66 Two tiger sharks!

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#67 Octopus with a disorder that gave it 96 arms.

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#68 The frilled shark. I’m not thrilled at all.

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#69 Pink freshwater dolphin in the Amazon.

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#70 The giant phantom jelly.

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#71 Zebra shark and whale shark.

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#72 A whale in peace.

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#73 Nope.

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#74 A shark’s jaw is essentially a conveyor belt of teeth continuously rolling out, making the shark always ready for killing.

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#75 Sea pig, a friendly kind of sea cucumber.

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#76 Diving next to an iceberg.

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#77 Does this go here? IDK it just instills fear deep within my soul.

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#78 A vortex of fire under the surface of the water in the Gulf of Mexico.

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#79 A giant squid eye. It has the largest known eye in the entire animal kingdom.

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#80 A type of hogfish, fresh catch.

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#81 The alien tripod fish and its strange fins that suspend it.

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#82 Taken from a fishing boat in Antarctica.

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#83 The owlfish living at depths of over 6,000 meters (19,685 feet).

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#84 Rising up from the murky water next to my kayak.

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#85 How a blobfish (a deep-sea fish) looks with and without the extreme water pressure.

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#86 Nothing goes to waste.

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#87 Crystal formations underwater.

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#88 This absolute monstrosity of a sailfish belongs here 100%.

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#89 Not sure if this qualifies, but this picture is the cause of the worst nightmare I’ve ever had.

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#90 About 345 million years old, almost intact crinoid fossil.

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#91 Large wolf eels are curious and are rarely aggressive.

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#92 King of the Amazon. The arapaima.

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#93 Massive crab claw.

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#94 Lumpsucker, found in the freezing waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, and North Pacific. It swims at depths of 1,700 m (5,600ft).

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#95 This is the Thaumatichthys axeli. It’s a bizarre anglerfish with a light source inside of its mouth, and it looks like a vacuum cleaner.

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#96 An anglerfish specimen recovered from the depths is the stuff of nightmares.

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#97 Hungry carp look straight out of Lovecraft.

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#98 Have a terrifying picture of a squid with seemingly human teeth. However, the teeth are just nodes of flesh.

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#99 Only you and him.

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#100 Japanese spider crab, human for scale.

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