10 Real Animals That Look Like They Came From Another Planet

In May 2025 a team estimated how much of the deep seafloor humans have actually looked at — not mapped by sonar, looked at, with a camera. About 0.001%. They went through roughly 44,000 dives going back to 1958, and the total comes out around the size of Rhode Island. The authors added that even if they are off by a factor of ten, it is still under 0.01%. Every animal in this video came out of that sliver. Most of them were not found by expeditions looking for them. They were found by accident, by a robot that happened to be pointing the right way. CHAPTERS 0:00 We have seen 0.001% of it 0:44 10. The barreleye 1:42 9. The bloodybelly comb jelly 2:26 8. The vampire squid 3:23 7. The giant phantom jelly 3:47 6. The flying spaghetti monster 4:24 5. The bigfin squid 5:16 4. The ping-pong tree sponge 5:51 3. The black seadevil 6:36 2. The golden orb 7:33 1. The one with no footage 8:26 The strangest thing on the list FOUR THINGS MOST VIDEOS GET WRONG The bloodybelly comb jelly's rainbow is not bioluminescence. The species does not glow at all. Those eight rows are combs of beating cilia, and the shimmer is light diffracting off them — which means you only see it because the ROV's lamp is on. In real darkness it is invisible. The vampire squid has no ink sac. It ejects glowing mucus. And it does not hunt: Hoving & Robison showed in 2012 that it eats marine snow, making it the only known detritivorous cephalopod. The bigfin squid's 6,212 m record is from the Philippine Trench (Jamieson & Vecchione, 2021), not the Great Australian Bight — the GAB maximum was 3,258 m. No intact adult has ever been captured. Promachoteuthis sulcus does not have human teeth. Those are its circular folded lips surrounding the beak, photographed head-on. The beak is behind them and is not visible. The animal is the size of a thumbnail, and there is exactly one specimen in existence. AND ONE PIECE OF NEWS The golden orb found by NOAA on 30 August 2023 at ~3,300 m in the Gulf of Alaska was identified in April 2026. It is the remnant base of a giant deep-sea anemone, Relicanthus daphneae — the sticky pedal disc that anchors the animal to rock. It took microscopy, cell analysis and a full genome sequence, because DNA barcoding alone could not resolve it. Most videos online still say "unidentified." Footage credits belong to the institutions that captured it, chiefly MBARI, NOAA Ocean Exploration and Schmidt Ocean Institute. If this pulled you in, leave a like. It genuinely helps this channel reach people who would love this kind of thing. Subscribe to DeepDiveDoodles and hit the bell so you get notified the moment the next one goes live. #deepsea #deepseacreatures #marinebiology #oceanexploration #DeepDiveDoodles