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The spaceship is a barreleye fish. They've got tubular eyes they can point up or forward, which are encased in a dome of clear soft tissue:
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Spider is called a pycnogonid. They're so skinny they keep their reproductive bits in their legs!
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Wacky wavy tube mans are tube worms called Riftia pachyptila. They can grow roughly 10 ft tall (~3m) and have no butts! Or mouths... or guts really. Instead, they have a special stomach filled w\\ bacteria that eat sulfur and poop out worm food. Riftia are very stinky.
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Flower is actually related to a sea star. It's called a crinoid, and they use their bard bark-like petals to catch small floating prey. Some can crawl and look very scary.
Dennis is a giant ocean roly-poly 
The king of all the doodlebugs & emperor of the deep, they are close relative of pillbugs, but the size of footballs. Are peaceful, but will not turn down a free gator.
@DrCraigMc at @LUMCONscience https://bit.ly/3li1vay
The king of all the doodlebugs & emperor of the deep, they are close relative of pillbugs, but the size of footballs. Are peaceful, but will not turn down a free gator. @DrCraigMc at @LUMCONscience https://bit.ly/3li1vay
Shinybois is a comb jelly friend. This comb jelly prob catches food with two huge lips it sticks out in front of its body. Others are really just mouths. All are rainbowy 
https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1113476203875328000
https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1113476203875328000
Jellyfish i think? is indeed a jellyfish! This jelly is called Atolla, and they hunt with forward-facing tentacles like soft mushy battering rams, running into and then eating other jellies.
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Atolla jellies also have SUPER COOL spiral bioluminescence. If an Atolla is attacked, it sends up a spiral signal and bigger animals come to eat whatever's eating the Atolla. Here's a LITERAL GIANT SQUID responding to a robot Atolla.
@oceanexplorer https://bit.ly/2KPNft5
@oceanexplorer https://bit.ly/2KPNft5
Wait what is that is a bigfin squid! They're SUPER RARE but just this month a new study was published with some of the best ever video of these amazing squids, which were up to 6 feet (~2 meters) long! https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1326984342971830272
"seriously what is that I'm scared" is a super long super stingy jelly called a siphonophore. They're made up of attached clones that all perform special jobs in the colony, like the Borg but literally sharing a gut. They can get OVER 100 FEET LONG... https://twitter.com/SchmidtOcean/status/1247231196347674625
If you want to learn more about siphonophores, here's a thread I wrote after I was done literally crying about the video above (oh, and they are legit scaryâthey can sting through TWO layers of doctor's gloves. Awesome but DO NOT BOOP): https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1247238896766914567
