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Octopus. Any kind. Duh.

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It's not a super creative or interesting answer, but I'd be lying if I said anything other than the giant squid. That's gotta be one of the wildest most alien things on our planet. Squid are already fascinatingly weird and now you're telling me there are squids the size of a horse that fight whales at the bottom of the ocean? Amazing. Please stay down at the bottom of the sea where I am not. I know the colossal squid is bigger, but it's cool that the giant one is probably the basis of some of our most enduring myths of sea monsters and the name "giant squid" just rolls off the tongue really well
- What about the Colossal Squid

Siphonophores. Extremely alien looking colonial organisms. Iirc they are, by far, the longest known aquatic creatures.
- Bruh siphonophores are so fascinating.

Idk if I have a fave deep sea creature, I’ll have to think about that.. but I’m rather fond of coconut crabs. They steal shit from people, and are enormous.
- And maybe they killed Amelia Earhart!
  
  Or at least stole her heart and ear

Orca. They're just too damn cool, and they refuse to eat humans for some unknown reason. They, as a species, literally eat anything else that dares to enter their water including polar bears.
I personally maintain that some Orca took out an elderly or young human at some point, and the villagers responded by wiping out the entire pod of orca except for a traumatized survivor that told the rest of the orcas that they shouldn't ever eat the angry hairless monkeys, and the species has remembered for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years.

Bigfin squid
Most alien shit on our planet
- Those are those monstrosities with the enormous tendril tentacles, right? They look fictional, Iove them

Angler Fish
- I was team Angler Fish when I got here but damn, there are some good candidates mentioned!

Deep sea Jeff. Much like regular Jeff but he’s waaaaay down there.
- Deep Sea Jeff might know Old Greg

I like angler fish. Finding Memo had a huge effect on me, and I was well into my 20's when that came out lol.
- This fish wish never cease to be cool

Cephalopods of all kinds are fabulous, but it's a crime I haven't seen siphonophores here.

Those creatures that live around high temperatures hydrothermal vents, they don't get their energy from the sun!

Gulper eel said, "I can't see shit down here. So I'm just going to swim around with my mouth open, and I'm just going to call whatever gets in there lunch."
To which evolution replied, "Bet?"

All octopodes are good octopodes.
- I only recently learned about the Dumbo Octopus and I think it is adorable!

Sea Turtle!
- Leatherback sea turtles are hella neat! Deepest diving of all of the turtles. Absolutely fearless.

Whale Sharks. Just look at them. Not a thought behind those eyes. And they're polka dot patterned. Wobbegongs are pretty great too. They have the cool name, and much of the pluses of the Whale shark. They also have thoughtless eyes.

i don't really care about animals... i know like three different fish and that's it as far as sea creatures go. i will still listen to people talk about them though.
- Orca care about you. They are the only apex predator that refuses to hunt or eat humans. We are unique there too. They will eat other monkeys and apes that they rarely happen upon, and they eat polar bears and other bears whenever they can catch them.
  Last time an orca even bit a human in nature, the human was asking for it. They were poking the orca with a blunted harpoon. The orca snapped, bit their arm, realized what it just bit and let go before it severed the dude's arm. Then all the orcas in the area left for a decade or so. This was back in the late 1800s on the Pacific coast of Alaska.
  
  that's so cool!

No, that's how you engage with people when you're six years old.
- This comment has "I'm not a kid anymore, I'm 17 years old" energy
- Which one is yours, then? :)

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