Underwater footage of Hadal Snailfish

[illustriouschin]

They are eating giant sea cockroaches?

[509734]

at this depth, it'll literally feel like 200,000 elephants stacked on top of your head

[littlepanicaz]

i want one!!!!! lord, they are the most beautiful underwater creatures i have ever seen!!!!

[goodboysfollowrules1]

I wonder what will happen if we bring them up

[Metalhead6781]

In this documentary, you can see how the sperm cells from the male is trying to penentrate the coating off the egg cell so it may be fertilized.

[Gesmehod]

wow, 5 miles of water on their little ol heads

[XxSiCkH3dxX]

Chuck norris' cum...

[xxTRUTHxx1]

cnn just reported this fish was just discovered last month but this vid was made 2 years ago so obviously cnn is wrong

[liedetecter2000]

im beginning to wonder. those snailfish are living in a place way down deep that is in COMPLETE darkness. how did the japanese thingers get this footage so light?

[skaistegal]

@liedetecter2000 Its a specialized camera, it aint really that dark it just seems that way with the human eye when u look at the ocean because the deepness of it ^_^

[qwertyuiop1234567311]

i that how your cum looks.... seek medical attention

[serpentdancer85]

they look like tadpoles

[Battleaxegunner]

Cute.

[beccajade05]

those look like the algea eater fish ....lol...

[NGBGAMIHM]

the oblongo snail fish

[notujoo]

sperm with wings,.... lol

[omar6000]

'sperm schools' ;)

[TheDracowulf]

True indeed: perhaps our intelligence hasn't blossomed so far that we might re-create the environment that spawned the universe from nothing, and created the infinite organizations of even the "simplest" life out of a seething mass of non-living material.

Oh yes, we're definitely "still missing" something for sure.

[TheDracowulf]

What you're talking about is micro-evolution; as compared to macro-evolution. Micro is essentially adaptation; changes encouraged by natural selection, which includes prompts from environmental conditions - but micro changes occur within a species (thus the finches, and ten-foot cockroaches being "selected" out until we've got our little buggars today). The overall population of a given species is destined to change, I would never deny that. What's questionable, is the idea of macro-evolution.

[modelwoddle]

haha so uhly you want one

[OperJeff]

ARE THEY EATING GYOZA?!

[modelwoddle]

haha so ugly you want one

[TheDracowulf]

Actually, evolution is "change over time" - not necessarily "improvements," that occur due to natural selection and rare mutations (which are rarely, if ever, beneficial).

As far as these creatures go, what's to say that they're "underdeveloped?" What would you consider developed - growing wings, spouting sonnets, building spacecraft? If evolution assumes everything is always "underdeveloped," then there's no such thing as fully developed then, is there?

[TheDracowulf]

"Careful study and observation" - over what... "millions of years"? How do you propose we construct this "artificial habitat?" They've tried that with explaining the very beginnings of life - amino acids, proteins; sludge and lightning - and failed, if you'll recall.

As for physical changes - sure, you'll get finches with big beaks and finches with small beaks, but in the end you're still only left with finches.

[karlfaeunst]

If they have lived in total darkness for millions of years why do they still have eyes?

[cheebachops]

So ugly i want one.

[xpez]

they look like koi....just an albino vesion...

so like if you had a dope underwater hotel at 8000 KM you could have these fish adding to the hotel decor

[jennylui1219]

"the snailfish survive in total darkness at a depth where the pressure is equivalent to 1,600 elephants standing on the roof of a Mini"

[TheDracowulf]

Just for the sake of argument...

Firstly, I wasn't aware that the theory of evolution was a question that needed answering. It's a theory that may be IN question, but in and of itself it isn't A question. So then, what's an "answer to evolution?"

Still evolving? What exactly is that supposed to mean? They look pretty functional as they are to me. Who's to say that they haven't remained as they are for "millions of years" just like some species of frogs, insects and fish (coelacanth anyone)?

[Charagrin]

Anyone else think they kinda look like sperm? No offense and not to be rude or anything. just an observation.

[TheDracowulf]

Describing what something looks like in comparison to another isn't offensive in my book. It's an intelligent observation.

I see tadpoles personally; plus more developed fins. Pretty cool looking!

[Charagrin]

Yeah, But some people get offended by a feather falling. Something like my comment would give em a heart attack. I have met people like that in person Annoying SOB's.

[TheDracowulf]

Unfortunately, that is quite true. There is, of course, a line most people can agree upon between acceptable and unacceptable in respectable conversation (tongue-twister, ha ha), but with subject matter such as this, why not be at least a little scientific?

Anyways - Peace, mate. :)

[xpez]

OH GOD EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE SPERM...

why are you so immature!!!

HAHAHAHA....is that what you were afraid of reading???

LOL

[loveuforever23]

oh my god their cute. I want 1

[SNEDILLIO]

I bet they taste like chicken.

[01925639130]

wow this is cool i just saw the news on msn and i thort ide look em up there prretty nice