Why Do Deep Sea Creatures Evolve Into Giants?

Sign up to Morning Brew for free today!: https://morningbrewdaily.com/realscience

Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-why-some-deep-sea-animals-become-giants

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realscience

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephaniesammann

Credits:

Narrator/Producer: Stephanie Sammann

Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1)

Editor: David O'Sullivan

Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations)

Illustrator: Elfy Chiang (https://www.elfylandstudios.com)

Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/)

Animator: Eli Prenten (https://www.instagram.com/twistereli/)

Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net)

Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel)

Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realengineering)

Imagery courtesy of Getty Images

References:

[1] https://www.britannica.com/science/abyssal-zone

[2] https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/vampire-squid-hell

[3] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/marinesnow.html#:~:text=Marine%20snow%20is%20a%20shower,finally%20reaching%20the%20ocean%20floor.

[4] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2005.3158

[5] https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/giant-squid#:~:text=Introduction,-Dr.&text=Giant%20squid%20live%20up%20to,have%20weighed%20nearly%20a%20ton.

[6] https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/science/colossal-squid/colossal-squid-te-papa/how-big-colossal

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber%27s_law

[8] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-marine-biological-association-of-the-united-kingdom/article/abs/slow-pace-of-life-of-the-antarctic-colossal-squid/C65E7D6CAE8A77365BDB695C1F34E4D4

[9] https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/animals-and-temperature/thermal-evolution-of-ectotherm-body-size-why-get-big-in-the-cold/B1ADB4A7A1778CDEE18D377DC10A934D

[10] https://sci-hub.se/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1012336823275

[11] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/greenland-shark.html

[12] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaf1703

[13] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-76371-0#:~:text=As%20a%20large%20and%20slow,date7%2C13%2C33.

[14] https://www.aaas.org/supergiant-amphipods-deep-sea

[15] https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/isopod.html

[16] https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/02/22/280249001/i-wont-eat-you-cant-make-me-and-they-couldnt

[17] https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.12152

[18] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22905166/