7 Wonders Of God's Creation: In The Deep-Sea

John 1:3

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

Nature is one of God's beautiful creations.

I often stand in awe of  God's creations and varieties of the beautiful things He has surrounded us with, and just when I think I've seen it all, more fascinating new discoveries are made which only authenticates  the existence of God our creator.

Here are some of such discoveries in the deep sea.

Transparent squid

Resembling hand blown glass bottles these creatures may appear fragile, but they are deceptively robust. 

Their cigar shaped liver is the only coloured part of this cephalopod. Until of course it comes to mating season and their chromophores ‘turn on’, transforming their bodies into a surging bioluminescent light show. Sexy.

Ribbon eel

Not just exceptional in appearance, the trumpet-nostrilled, tri-tentacled ribbon eel is also a colour changing transsexual.

This sea dweller akin to the mythical Chinese dragon regularly shifts from gender to gender (called a protandic hermaphrodite) whilst transforming from blue to yellow hues.

They may be fabulous, but don’t try purchasing one unless you have a lot of experience in keeping morays: they are known to starve themselves once in captivity.

Transparent-headed barreleye fish

Recently described as a mysterious ‘fish with the face of a boy’ in some newspapers, the Pacific Barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) was first discovered in 1939.

70 years late, researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute found that not only are their ‘eyes’ actually nostrils but that their real eyes rotate within their translucent liquid filled heads.

This allows them to look straight up whilst moving horizontally through the sea. Very savvy.

Blob fish

“I don’t normally look this ugly”. Blob fish are found in the depths of Australian and Tasmanian waters.

Their low-density gelatinous flesh helps them float just above the sea floor collecting any food that comes their way.

The Blobfish may have been voted the “World’s Ugliest Animal” in 2013, but this is based on their appearance when decompressed and out of water.

Sea devil angler fish

First described in 1864 by British Museum zoologist Albert Günther, this devil of an angler fish has an intense interpretation of the deadly female cliché.

The male will fuse his body to the female who is larger, losing his eyes, teeth, fins and internal organs. He then survives through her and will simply provide sperm when it is time for her to spawn. 

The dots on the sea devil angler fish’s face are neuromasts: clever little organs that sense pressure and movement in the water.

Transparent sea cucumber

The sea cucumber’s invisibility cloak has allowed them to exist and evolve at the bottom of the ocean, hidden from predators, for hundreds of millions of years. 

Their soft bodies glide slowly along the pitch-black ocean depths, far below the 200m limit where sunlight can penetrate.

the piglet squid

This happy camper is the piglet squid. Roughly the size of an avocado, the pigmentation in his skin has given this squid a permanent smile. 

Piglet squids get their football shape due to their habit of filling up with water.