Brother Clippy: Yes, there are many, many undiscovered organisms but there are certainly no undiscovered high energy predators the size of a city bus

Yes, there are many, many undiscovered organisms but there are certainly no undiscovered high energy predators the size of a city bus

This is somehow even more ridiculous conspiracy theory than the one that says the megalodons never went extinct

“But in the deep sea” *slaps you* These creatures evolved for environments near the surface. We’d have seen them. Ever seen what happens when you take a creature to the wrong level of pressure?

Hint: the blobfish isn’t actually supposed to look like that. What you’re looking at there is the oceanic equivalent of dragging a human into space and shoving them out an airlock

To add to that, there are deep sea sharks but they’ve evolved to thrive in low energy environments. Not much energy arrives down there. So they’ve evolved to metabolize slowly (hence the 400 year lifespan).

Take a massive high energy surface-level and shunt it into the abyss and it will last fractions of a second, not millions of years

Thank you for letting me be a massive nerd about fish and dinosaurs

Thank you for the early-morning nerding.

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