Happy Monday! The Deep Sea is the largest habitat on Earth and one of the least understood! Today we dive it to three of the weird and wonderful critters that call the Deep Sea home.

Links Referred to in the Episode:
- Hag Fish video

Sources about Hag Fish:

https://marinelab.fsu.edu/labs/grubbs/research/deep-sea/hagfish/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/referencework/pii/B9780323908016001543

https://marinespecies.wildlife.ca.gov/pacific-hagfish/the-species/

https://www.armatusoceanic.com/interview/doug-fudge

Sources about Angler Fish:

https://news.yale.edu/2024/05/23/sea-love-behind-unusual-sexual-parasitism-deep-water-anglerfish

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/deep-sea-anglerfish

https://oceana.org/marine-life/deep-sea-anglerfish/

Sources about Pompeii Worms:

https://spj.science.org/doi/full/10.34133/space.0017

https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/marinesymbiosis/pompeii.html

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4002450/

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