Strange Animals of the Deep | 2-Hour Deep Sea Documentary

Deep sea documentary: two hours of strange animals in real deep-sea footage from NOAA Ocean Exploration. Octopuses guarding their eggs, a blind lobster at the edge of a burrow, a hermit crab that uses an anemone instead of a shell, sea spiders, giant isopods, eels and anglerfish, a chimaera NOAA titled "Cartoon Chimaera", sea cucumbers that swim, sea stars that eat by pushing their stomach out, glass sponges, corals and the animals living on them, and the open water, which NOAA calls the largest habitat on the planet. No CGI animals and no AI-generated imagery. Each part is an episode from this channel; use the chapters to jump to any of them. CHAPTERS 0:00:00 This Octopus May Guard Her Eggs for Years 0:04:44 The Octopus That Tried to Hide 0:05:37 The Octopus NOAA Found Exploring Rose Atoll 0:06:39 NOAA Calls This Octopus "Particularly Squishy" 0:07:24 A Brooding Warty Octopus Guards Her Eggs 0:10:42 This Squid Has Two Different Eyes 0:15:11 NOAA Says These Are Not Squids 0:16:28 This Woodlouse Relative Grows to Half a Metre 0:22:35 A Sea Cucumber That Swims 0:24:11 This Shrimp Is Carrying Her Eggs On The Outside Of Her Body 0:24:59 A Sea Spider Eating a Coral 0:25:33 Two Deep-Sea Crabs in What NOAA Called a Precarious Waltz 0:26:25 A Deep-Sea Crab and an Unlikely Meal 0:27:11 The Amphipod NOAA Calls Rather Frightening to Look At 0:27:59 The Blind Lobster With Claws Poised for Action 0:28:43 Some Deep-Sea Fish Have Stopped Swimming 0:33:03 Why So Many Deep-Sea Fish Are Shaped Like Eels 0:38:08 The Eel With A Bill 0:38:36 NOAA: This Could Be the Largest Short-Finned Cutthroat Eel Ever Recorded 0:39:26 One Hagfish Can Fill a Bucket With Slime 0:44:07 Most Sharks Don't Live Where You Think 0:49:28 NOAA: This Snailfish Is Likely a New Species 0:50:09 They Call It the Faceless Cusk Eel 0:53:34 The Anglerfish That Lies in Wait 0:54:25 Face to Face With a Deep-Sea Shark 0:55:15 The Searobin That Tried to Scare Off NOAA's Robot 0:56:05 The Fish NOAA Called a Cartoon Chimaera 0:56:53 The Fish Named For Red 0:57:37 NOAA Calls This The Expedition's Fishiest Dive 0:58:30 It Eats by Pushing Its Stomach Out of Its Mouth 1:03:31 A Sea Cucumber With A Sail 1:04:19 Bizarre-Looking Sea Cucumbers Science Knows Very Little About 1:05:30 The Headless Chicken Monster 1:09:44 Brittle Stars Caught This Squid 1:10:24 This Animal Makes Glass Out of Seawater 1:15:18 Down Here, Animals Live on Other Animals 1:19:42 A Coral Shaped Like a Firework 1:20:32 None of This Is a Plant 1:24:43 This Reef Is Built on Dead Coral 1:28:35 An Animal Standing on Another Animal 1:29:29 NOAA Found Animals Living On This Sponge, 2,880 Metres Down 1:30:12 The Gold Coral That Consumes Its Host 1:31:05 The Anemone NOAA Calls Beautiful, but Perhaps Sinister 1:31:35 Erosion Cut These Benches. Something Lives on Them. 1:33:35 Our Deepwater Backyard 1:34:51 NOAA Calls This One Ginormous 1:38:15 The Scale Worm That Surprised NOAA Scientists 1:39:02 Why So Much of the Deep Sea Is Red 1:43:15 Most Deep-Sea Footage Shows Nothing Happening. Until It Does. 1:48:15 Seep Tubeworms Can Live for Centuries 1:53:23 The Largest Habitat on Earth 1:56:35 It May Be an Undescribed Species 1:59:47 The Jelly With A Deep Red Stomach ABOUT THIS FILM Footage: NOAA Ocean Exploration (oceanexplorer.noaa.gov), from NOAA expeditions, mostly aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer; three short shots come from NOAA-supported partner expeditions credited on NOAA's site (Hidden Ocean 2016; Gulf of Alaska seamounts 2024; Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands 2024). Each episode names its expeditions in its own description on this channel. On screen, as in the published episodes: NOAA's own logo, playback markers, title and end cards, a web address in some chapters, seafloor-map graphics (one briefly over a satellite map), the robots and their arms, and this channel's own animal labels. The narration is synthetic: most parts use a local rendering of the channel owner's own voice, made from a consented recording; seven earlier parts use the channel's previous synthetic narrator. Corrections for this film: misread numbers, garbled names, run-on or dropped passages, stray syllables, and a few statements that went further than the science were re-voiced or removed; a few corrected lines leave out a year or a detail. Shots in three chapters that were not NOAA's own footage were replaced with NOAA footage of the same length. Some chapters carry a more careful title. The standalone episodes have not been changed. A few NOAA shots recur between chapters, including neighbouring chapters.