Peacock Mantis Shrimp - An Explosion of Color Under the Sea | Alien Abyss 101

For as long as we’ve looked up at the stars, we’ve imagined alien lifeforms. Weird creatures, inhabiting strange worlds. But all along, the strangest lifeforms have been living right under our noses, hidden from view beneath the sea. There are animals in inner space weirder than any aliens.

Earth has had oceans for 4 billion years, and incredibly there has been life in our seas for at least three and a half billion of those. The earliest life forms were simple single celled creatures. But some of those clumped together, cementing themselves together with mucus and sediment to form bizarre living rocks. Later sponges and jellyfish pioneered different cells for different jobs, and life as we know it exploded.

Most of the oddballs in our oceans have their origins in the Cambrian explosion, 500 million years ago. As the oceans keep going through upheavals caused by everything from ice ages and asteroids to human interreference, life keeps having to adapt. It’s either that or face extinction. Some of the solutions sea life has come up with are spectacularly strange.

From shrimp that live at the very bottom of the ocean, getting all their energy from hydrothermal vents to the hammerhead’s wing-shaped head and the octopus' incredible eyes, we delve into the reasons why animals are the weird way they are and behave the bizarre way they do.

How do cold blooded iguanas manage to feed on seaweed they can’t digest ten meters below the chilly sea? How does a blind worm catch and eat a fish bigger than itself? How can a sharks walk up on a reef at low tide and lie half braindead in the sun for hours, yet walk away unscathed when the tide returns? Why are there snails with sails, crabs that climb trees, fish on the land and mammals in the sea? Find out in the Alien Abyss.

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[ReclaimerX]

Clicked for mantis shrimp, got everything except mantis

[seanys]

Ignore the title. This is a informative and entertaining documentary on underwater life and its history. Well written and quite interestingly narrated. So rare, these days, to find a narrator that doesn’t annoy me or bore me to tears. Nice work, my dude.

[Marliyala_]

I saw a Mantis Shimp ones & I Will never Forget it

[Socialistayecologista]

LA NATURALEZA ES MUY BELLA Y MUY DUVERSA! TENEMOS QUE CUIDARLA Y PROTEGERLA!

[TheStormey]

Yeah I also give what's the deal with no mantis shrimp? Although I have to say it was a great video anyway but I really would have liked to have seen more mantis shrimp in it😮😮😅

[lindajohnson]

I wouldn’t call humans ‘intelligent’. No other species has messed our world up like ours. They’re the smart ones.

[christineMaccallum-uoqx]

Nature and mistey and other things and more events and other excitement and more people and drama and different types of characters and chapters and other strange and other adventures and other beautiful scenery and awesome view and more creepy stuff and different types of interesting and fascinating facts so let's just watch ❤😂

[BobbyGazo]

its amazing how earth was made in 6 day's 😂😂😂

[williammontgrain]

28 minutes in, and barely a mention of mantis shrimps. I can't stand clickbait. You lost a subscriber.

[danclayberger]

Another bait and switch title. 3-5 seconds about Mantis Shrimp 59 minutes of anything but Mantis Shrimp. So Love nature has earned a GREAT BIG THUMBS DOWN for false title. You Tube should remove this video.

[tamonettX]

0:28 seconds were all I could stand. Ugh

[jonathansantos]

important to know:
just beacuse sea creatures have a difficulty of sexual tender.

humans atilll have to govern more that such limits of fertile law.

people of the dark ages who still try to sleep pattern in particular way that were suspicious and disqualified around proper human trueness.
including sin related history that had to be rescued by living surrounders, even victims like myself who remember how they were discoursed and cause a big set back in spritual levels and blessing of time miracalation.


just some words of wisdom and historic retourics.


"take from me" history💌

[ryanreedgibson]

Channel blocked. Don't lie to me for clicks!