some people are animal lovers well I'm an animal hater not all animals deserve respect I dislike
kangaroos first of all they are arrogant and no creature with feet that big should have such
terrible arms I also dislike geese and hippos are dumb too but not all animals should be killed some
of them are genuinely interesting so I thought for once those animals should get some attention
the oceans of our world are vast covering two thirds of the world's surface eighty percent of
it remains unexplored it's unknown how many animal species are in the ocean waiting to be found but
some estimate there could be up to a million either way countless aquatic creatures have
already been discovered and they tend to be much stranger than those on land among the strangest
is the Greenland shark incredibly elusive this creature has the longest lifespan of any known
animal living up to 400 years extremely rare and difficult to catch they have always been shrouded
in mystery Greenlandic folklore once told they were demigods with Inuit peoples greatly revering
them but encounters with Greenland sharks do not often occur despite from being the fourth largest
of all fish the extent of their natural habitat is unknown but they reside deep underwater in regions
of the ocean not explored by man such depths would be devoid of light but that doesn't matter
almost every Greenland shark is blind they are not born blind but the species is plagued
by a small parasite eating into the tissue of their eyes they are gradually robbed of vision
so much about them is strange they swim at less than a mile an hour but are very effective
predators being known to eat seals and even polar bears how they're able to catch their much faster
prey is not known their flesh is poisonous their jaws permanently open the great mystery
of Greenland sharks is how they live so long it is a predator at the top of the food chain
but even with that taken into account 400 years is a long time being so difficult to even find
little study has been done on the creature it is thought they only reach sexual maturity at the
age of 150 that might sound insane but to a Greenland shark 150 is still relatively young
and a single shark can go onto a 300 pups in truth 400 years is just an estimate for their lifespan
for all we know they could live much longer it is just one of many mysteries of a Greenland shark
found in Antarctic regions of the world yeti crabs are completely unique
these blind albino creatures look like something from star trek or France and just like the French
you won't believe how they survive unlike most creatures who rely on sunlight to provide
nutrients they rely on hydrothermal vents under water vents that give off extremely hot and toxic
gas to most animals being anywhere near such events would cause death but the yeti crab is
perfectly evolved for this environment waving their hairy arms above a hydrothermal vent
they encourage bacteria to grow on them which they later feed on its food this bacteria also
helps protect them from the toxic gas but that is just speculation the yeti crab was only discovered
in 2005 and so much about them is a mystery their population is unknown for all we know there could
be tens of millions or just a few thousand how a creature could even begin to adapt to this
environment is unknown living in the Antarctic yeti crab can only exist within a few meters
of their hydrothermal vent wander away even for a brief moment and they will likely die from a
cold so you have an entire animal species living in tiny isolated bubbles 7 500 feet under water
named after an Aztec god the axolotl is a salamander native to Mexico unlike other
salamanders they do not lose their external gills as they grow into adulthood remaining underwater
their whole life but what's truly unique about them is their ability to regenerate body parts
some other animals can regrow limbs but not like axolotl they can regrow their tail jawbone skin
and even spine there is no limit to how many times they can regenerate and no visible scarring is
left after almost driven to extinction in the wild axolotl mostly exist as pets or research specimen
scientists still don't understand how axolotl can regenerate body parts while humans largely cannot
amazingly they can even survive a third of their heart being removed re-growing it in a matter
of weeks the name axolotl literally means water monster according to legend the Aztec god of death
once made himself the enemy of most other gods not wanting to die because apparently as their gods
can murder each other he transformed himself into a strange animal that was the birth of axolotl