The Vampire Squid, a Living Fossil of the Abyss
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ธ.ค. 2020
- The vampire squid is a peculiar creature, with its deep red colour, icy blue eyes, and webbed tentacles. Vampire squid are remarkably well-suited for a life at these depths. The isolated environment around it has changed little in 300 million years, meaning there has been no selection pressure to drive any large-scale natural selection in the species. For now, it is evolution’s near perfect solution to the harsh, unforgiving environment of the oceanic deep.
The vampire squid dwells in the mesopelagic zone of the ocean. Here, there may be less than 5 percent oxygen saturation and little or no light. But while most cephalopods cannot survive below 50% oxygen saturation, the vampire squid has found ways of adapting to these conditions, with a slowed metabolism that causes it to require very little oxygen to survive. When feeding, it rarely actively swims, but prefers to drift on ocean currents. By using this efficient method, the squid uses very little energy, which it saves up for times when it faces danger. In such instances, it can move swiftly, using powerful jet propulsion while flapping its enlarged fins.
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Hi all, this video is suddenly getting a big view spike, so I wanted to direct you to my newer deep sea films (which in my opinion are of much higher production quality than this earlier film) - here's a link to the full series, including the exciting 4K Worlds of the Deep series created in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute! - th-cam.com/video/dTKUEvGYvSg/w-d-xo.html
The vampire squid: the scariest name for the tamest of sea creatures
Absolutely agree!
@@NaturalWorldFacts odd since its the only unaggressive cephalopod while its also the one with the most aggressive name.
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@@davidrossi5443 funny
@@SleepyCinnamon just scientist humor.
Harmless squid that doesn't hunt: exists
Scientists: Dear lord! It's a vampire monster from Hell!
lol the "from hell" is just gratuitous
Fun fact - it’s a direct translation of their latin name
Maybe it’s a Greenland/Iceland thing?
@@juhlsghouls man.... then I'd hate to be the one to find the heavenly fluffy bunny octopus
I thought that back was the mouth and it was gonna open it and swallow something whole
Scientists: "The killer-murder-terrorist-monster fish"
The killer-murder-terrorist-monster fish: Eats marine snow and is harmless
my man is literally a living water filter and they named him "vampire squid for hell"
From hell.
dude I wish I could be called a “living fossil of the abyss” it sounds so cool
You are a living fossil of the abyss
Just give it time.
hi there living fossil of the abyss
i too, aspire to acquire the title “living fossil of the abyss”
such a cool ass fucking title
Hilary Clinton has that title
Screw science, I’m calling that the umbrella squid.
That’s so cool about the reduced need for oxygen! Footage of the pineapple posture was so rad!
Cephalopods are just incredible, thank you for raising awareness of this!
💚 happy holidays Leo! 🎄
Thanks Shelby! Happy holidays 💛🦑
*inkcredible
It has a dangerous name for a very harmless and cute squid.
I really really find them cute, no clue how big they are tho, but.....still cute!!!
They're pretty small.
About the size of a football. I was surprised when I found out they weren't like...dog sized or something
So, about the size of a normal squid
Yeah, I love cephalopods so much!
I keep getting more and more amazed by the incredible variety and bizarreness of life on this planet. Imagine how bizarre creatures from other planets might be.
When I was small, I would see the Vampire Squid in deep sea documentaries and think its the size of a car, or even larger. But when I grew up, I learned that most things in those documentaries are much smaller than I believed. The Vampire Squid grows up to around 12 inches. A bit disappointing, honestly, but I still love it.
It is interesting how they can survive in lower oxygen environments, I have a glow in the dark toy one from back in the day.
It’s fascinating, isn’t it? The extremes to which life is capable of adapting!
That toy sounds awesome.
Squid: has largest relative eyes in the world, to be able to see in the almost complete darkness.
Cameraman: how about I shine several hundred watts lamps on you?
Amazing animal and amazing presentation. I love your channel!
Me on A site:
Yeah I was wondering if that light can cause some serious damage
One of the most metal-looking sea creatures. and yet incredibly harmless. I am so in love. Thanks so much for all the incredible deep-sea videos, i am so addicted to them
Vampiresquid gets frightened
Vampiresquid: „Throwing flashbang!“
Ha ha! You really have nurtured your love of the bizarre deep sea life this year Leo. How about some terrestrial wonders soon though, yeah? Wishing you and yours a Joyful Christmas and a happy, healthy, and successful 2021. 👍😎👍
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you too!! There certainly will be more terrestrial videos in the new year - I have a new 4K camera that I’m excited to use, but it’s unlikely I’ll find enough creatures to film during the winter to create content just yet! But watch this space - my love of British Wildlife remains just as strong!
What a cute critter, with those big eyes, demure flippers and a positively elegant dress.
We should make sure that future generations can be as amazed of this little buddy as we are now.
Completely agree :)
Very cool and interesting, thank you!
No problem, glad you enjoyed :)
"So, welcome to the abyss."
- Vampire Squid Zoidberg
Just discovered this channel today. And I am hooked. You have such a calm voice, Leo. These videos are so interesting.
Thank you so so much - I feel so lucky to have such a supportive community, it really helps me out
cephalopods are so dang cuuuutttee
A beautiful day to binge all your videos, they’re both a perfect blend of relaxing and engaging. You are the blueprint that’s for sure
Every introvert can rely to the vampire squid on a deep spiritual level.
Damn these squids always scared the inferno out of me! Only top-tier quality content like yours could make me click this video and now I have to thank you for reassuring me about the fact that they're harmless, just gotta get used to their look now haha
Anyway keep up the good work my friend, you've earned a new subscriber today :D
Aw thank you!!! So glad you enjoyed and slightly overcome your fear ;)
I love how simple this creature is! I'm studying different ocean animals and i was focusing on Octopus/Squid and to find this and it be neither is really cool!! I love how "threatening" it's supposed to be, but its the calmest creature out there lol, so cute 🫶🏼💕
Wow, I'm late to the game, aren't I! That's so fascinating to me, this creature's ability to clean our planet by surviving on a strictly detritivorous diet in a place where so many other creatures cannot survive at all! That's a thing of beauty!
You’re absolutely right. I’ve been looking into the role of the deep sea as a carbon sink for a possible carbon cycle video, and the benefit of some of these creatures that we so rarely see is mind-blowing. Without the oceans - without the mass movements of vertical migrators every day sequestering carbon and taking it down to the depth - human impacts would have decimated the natural world long ago. The deep sea is the biggest mitigator of our devastation, all thanks to creatures like the vampire squid.
ive been binging your videos the past couple days and i have to say. every time this little guy pops up in those videos i just trip out on him. I think hes starting to become my favorite animal. such a cool creature.
(Refers to other squids as shallow relatives) DAMN, that's a deep one!
I love it so much, it’s so cute
I've lost track of how many of your videos I've watched since coming across your channel just yesterday.
I've enjoyed every single one and look forward to watching more. Your passion is really transferred to the videos and draws me in, I need to be up in 6 hours but can't stop watching.
I hope you're able to keep making these wonderful and informative videos.
Thank you
Thank you so much, this is so lovely of you to say! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the vids - I have many more on the way so I really hope you stay tuned. Your support means a lot :)
@@NaturalWorldFacts I certainly will continue to watch and enjoy your videos.
I really appreciate your efforts to bring us all this information.
I tried falling asleep to some of your videos because your voice is very soothing but I was too intrigued to actually sleep 😂
Thank you!!! I really hope you like what I have in store next too :))
I think it's cute. It's a living umbrella.
Perfect choice of music.
This video was so cool! Great information
Too cute too precious
3:26 wow, that just unreal, but it is real... it looks like a sloth with tentacles
It's perfect. I love it.
Yet another nature channel to sub to!
It is so beautiful. The colours the movement and everything else matches perfectly and is very elegant. At least to me. Great Video!
The one thing that doesn't make sense to me about the vampire squid is how it manages to capture enough marine snow to sustain itself with only one, thin tentacle extended at any given time. It doesn't seem like a very efficient way to filter the water for particles.
one of my favorite creatures
What a beautiful and interesting animal!! Great channel. I'm happy I discovered this today!
I love them so much...
It’s shockingly beautiful
Such pretty eyes.
Another episode of 'quarantine brought me here'. And wow, I love your voice. So calming💛
Just absolutely fascinating!
I love this animal so much
man. vampire squids are so cool.
You need more recognition man
Thank you :D
It's my favourite animal of all 😻❤️ I probably wouldn't have studied biology and geology if I wouldn't have one day seen a documentary with this beautiful creature. life in the deep sea is endlessly fascinating
Riddick would be proud of that shine job.
Oh to be a Vampire Squid, drifting along the abyss
It’s adorable. I think it’s the eyes
Love your vocal mixing,
Aw thank you!
Awesome, awesome, awesome!
When you're minding your own business at the bottom of the sea harming nobody, and some unknown creature from the surface called you vampire from hell LMAO!
Cries on Squids intensifies
Nature's version of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Amazing stuff! Vampire squid are so cool, in my top 5 favourite deep-sea animals. And their ancestors and extinct relatives are also quite cool! For instance _Tusoteuthis longa_ - was a >5-metre long giant squid. This one lived in a sea that once covered North America, roughly 80 million years ago :)
Thanks Christian. You inspired me to do a little reading on the Tusoteuthis, and I’m in awe of it! I used to consider the prehistoric oceans as something of another world to those today, but more and more I’m starting to see the ocean’s today as remarkably similar in their biodiversity!
@@NaturalWorldFacts Ha! Yeah, prehistoric and present-day oceans often have similar ecologies. Some slightly different animals, sure, but in the same levels in the food chain. Orcas replaced mosasaurs, but they both ate anything that dared swim too close!
That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m coming to realise, thanks to your insights into the prehistoric deep sea!! It’s mesmerising, and it really makes me appreciate the influence of a habitat on shaping an ecosystem and its creatures so that all is held in equilibrium.
@@NaturalWorldFacts And habitats shape ecosystems incredibly precisely, down to the smallest detail. Always the same predator-to-prey ratio, always the same order of magnitude of a colony... It's crucial to keep those conditions exact, because then any imbalance in an ecosystem would snowball into a much bigger problem.
Also, just saw you broke the 10000 subscriber mark, that's quite a nice Christmas present, I imagine :) Have a feeling this channel's gonna blow up, honestly!
It’s absolutely mesmerising to truly understand an ecosystem in all its complex equilibria and intertwined processes. Thank you for sharing your knowledge once again! And for congratulating me for hitting 10,000, it’s very exciting to have reached that milestone! I can’t wait to put more content out there :)
Scary looking creature with scary name but it's a big softie
Fantastic work!
Thank you :)
this creature is mesmerizing
wow, this is some top quality content, very interesting and amazing footage
Thanks mate!! I love making them :)
God these videos are so elegant. Thank you. Your team is amazing.
I thought they were predators with spines like that. They look terrifying when going into their pineapple shape, so it's really cool how harmless they are
Great video
Thanks Eric 🦑
My favourite channel on yt
Thank you so much 💛
Very cute squid :) I have one in my islands museum
Another fascinating video!
Thank you so much :D
The magma panda is literally just like a puppeteer they scared the heck out of you
Humanity as a collective “SQUID BE CUTE NOW WE MUST NAME IT THE VAMPIRE SQUID”
This is a great video!
Thanks 😊
Thats one cool umbrella top i gotta admit
2:46 Stop it😩🤚you naughty squid you😏😝😝
The vampire is actually really cute to me.
For something supposedly scary it sure is adorable.
id love to learn more about sea alligators man maybe a series on aquatic reptiles. havent seen thru all your content yet if you already have ill look forward to getting to those eventually lol
I’m actually working on a marine reptiles vid as we speak!! Very good timing 😂
Why am I watching this at 2 AM?
I'm surprised the vampire squid's shown up in the fossil record at all, considering the tendency soft-bodied animals have of not being fossilized.
Your voice is amazing.
i thought the vampire squid would be gentle giants around 4 metres long or more, turns out they're quite small and adorable
What’s really funny is that I learned the vampire squid when I was 5 thru octanauts😂
I think this one should have been called the cuttlefish, cause himbs big eyes is so cute!!! 🥹❤️
I like the video but I want to point out that the term "living fossil" is not used anymore since it's not true that animals don't change overtime, even tho they look identical to their extinct relatives, organisms change very much internally, look at coelacanth for example, people called it living fossil for decades but if you look back to his prehistoric relatives they are different both externally and internally
I’m aware of the dispute regarding the term, ‘living fossil’, and agree it isn’t scientifically valid. But it is still a perfect phrase for expressing how incredible the ancient morphologies of some creatures are. I’ll continue to use it as an expressive, emotive and metaphorical phrase, as many scientists also do. Thanks for raising this, though! It’s a very interesting discussion :)
Living fossil is used to refer to organisms that have experienced some degree of (morphological) stasis. It's a more descriptive phrase. You chose the coelacanth to show how the term living fossil isn't really accurate but there are other species who have experienced even less physical change than the coelacanth. Also, it has always been weird to me that people point to the dna differences to invalidate the term when the term didn't really come from dna. It's simply we look at the species today, and we look at the fossil and even the paleoart and we think "oh wow, not much has changed, its a living fossil!". I understand that it was a term used by people who tried to debunk evolution, but beyond that, I never got why people had such a gripe with it. I mean, how else would you describe stuff like the vampire squid, the coelacanth, the lung fish, etc? If anything, I think it's convenient to have a phrase to quickly relay that this species has undergone relatively very little change. It's a neat little fact that's interesting. Unless of course there is already/another phrase that conveys an organism has experienced stasis?
@@johnsober people usually have a gripe with it because its an incredibly inaccurate term and science tries to be as accurate as possible. Not sure what you mean by what would we call coelacanth, lunfish, etc. We'd call them coelacanth, lungfish, etc as we do now. I can see why living fossil is a fun term to hype people up and is certainly an attention grabber for a youtube video title, but it really shouldnt be used as much as it is without explanation
@@screaminbloodymurder What other phrase do you propose we use for a species that hasn’t changed much (relatively) to its distant ancestors?
@@Newt2799 you use their species name or common name, theres no need to have a special term for it
I'm slowly realising that 'octonauts' taught me quite a lot about the deep sea creatures right when I was very little
Id say more beautiful than creepy a glowing shape shifting mass of vibrant color and light in a vast expanse of darkness.
Definitely not a living fossil but certainly the most epic and dapper of squid
How is there any oxygen at all in those deeps? Edit: He answers it in another video. When the Arctic waters freezes during winter the water around becomes extra salty/high salinity and sinks bringing oxygen with it to deep waters around the world. The more you know
Ayyy I’m really glad the Polar Deep vid cleared that up for you :D thanks for coming back and explaining it for others too! It really is a fascinating phenomenon, and it just goes to show how all these ecosystems are linked and rely on one another to survive!
@@NaturalWorldFacts Thanks, but just for curiosity. When there are no polar ice. How is there still life down there?
Do you mean in parts of the world not covered by ice?
@@NaturalWorldFacts Well in many time periods there has been no Ice in South or North Pole right? But like the Vampire Squid has existed for 300 million years. So how could they breathe before the South and North Pole got icy?
I want eyes like that...
Hey, we heard your eyes absorbs as much light as possible in the dark, here let us shine a spotlight on you.
Yep, the poor thing is definitely blind now (or more probably in something else's digestive system). It's cool to get more footage of the depths and learn more about the creatures there but it's sad that it so often comes at such costs... We just have to hope that the scientists know what they're doing and take care of causing as little damage as possible, I guess...
These creatures are part of a family of cephalopods that were absolutely huge some 80 million years ago. Tusoteuthis was one such individual species. Reaching about 25-35 feet in length. Literally the Kraken once existed. It’s closest living relative is said to be the vampire squid. Which isn’t a true squid, but rather part of this ancient family that is closer to octopuses.
If one of these ever washed ashore dead somehow I swear I’d take the eye ball and treasure it forever it’s absolutely gorgeous almost hypnotic
Humbolt squids a terrifying
its kinda cute ngl
Great video! Where can I find the soundtracks used?
Instead of living fossil let's call it an evergreen classic 👀
Splendid video! I like it! Do you know what would be even more amazing to find down in the depths of the oceans?
An Anomalocarid, big or small. It's easy to say that animal care and other prehistoric creatures disappeared, but looking at the vampire squid, and the fact that we've only explored at least 5% of the ocean, there are so many mysteries within the deaths we have got to discover.
Squid 🥰🥰🥰
I absolutely love this narrator's voice - who is she? I'm in love 🥰
Just little old me, and I’m a man but I don’t have a particularly deep voice so I completely understand 😁
At first i was mad at this person's comment.
Then i saw your reply, suddenly i could smile bout the whole thing....
So soothing 😌
@@NaturalWorldFacts I have no idea why somebody would mistake your voice for a women. When I first came across your channel, the thing that immediately caught my attention was your voice, love the narration. Don’t bring yourself down. And you certainly don’t need to have a super deep voice. It’s perfect!
He's a dude