here we see a reconstruction of a recently discovered fossil. this abominable creature is called finger boy, and was thought to siphon the dreams of children through their ears wilst they slumbered.
"They, unsurprisingly, live in the ocean, as they are in fact a species of squid." The Ben G Thomas channel always teaches me amazing things I never knew about the natural world... In seriousness, this creature is a favourite of articles and youtube videos discussing the weird animals in the ocean. I love showing an image of one to my friends and seeing them develop thalassophobia in real-time
The size of this thing is ungodly terrifying. Especially since most photos don't show off it's full length, the tentacles always off screen yet taking up the majority of the picture.
And we dont even know their *adult* forms just like the Colossal Squids! This is just another reason why Deep Oceans are terrifying and any reasonable individual would like to decide working on Space Colonies rather than trying to colonize deep aquatic inhabitats
@C K There are stories, told by seamen, down thru the ages, that we land lubbers, have laughed at and discounted as fairy tales and great exaggerations of sea monsters ... Maybe, some day in the future we will have physical proof of their tales ...
fun fact, people only explode down below due to the fact we have even slivers of air in our bodies, creating pressure differences that rupture any organ/ membrane not complying with the established pressure to a tenth of a unit. most fish in the deep have vastly reduced ascent methods outside of motion control, and as such their internals are used to outputting in crude amounts, as the pressure regulates everything for them, hence why they basically detonate upon retrieval
When I saw the first image, I thought: Imagine the prehistoric equivalent of this. Dragging down Mosasaurus to the depths of the sea. (Although that probably wouldn't happen)
@@heilmodrhinnheimski I'm not sure .. something would have preyed on the mososaurs' ancestors at some point to cause them to evolve into such monsters. Squid actually take down sperm whales. Who knows how huge they were in the past? They are mostly gelantinous. Not much fossil evidence would survive. Even the beaks would dissolve eventually.
@@thememoryhole9355 Something did, in fact. The ancestors of mososaurs belonged to the same family as monitor lizards and looked more or less the same. These ancestral monitors couldn’t compete with the non-avian dinosaurs and they and their eggs were often eaten by them as prey. To get away from their terrestrial superiors, they began escaping to marine waters when threatened. At first, they stated mostly near shallow, coastal waters where they had very little competition, until they had finally evolved enough marine adaptions to be able to venture out into deeper waters, where they would eventually have become apex predators.
Bigfin Squid is a bad name, lets go with Chandelier Squid, Dragline Squid, or Tassel Squid for the new common name instead. also i just assumed the "elbows" were the true end of the arms and they dragged tentacles from the tips of their arms. like maybe they could retract them when not in use.
Feeding: "we still dont know exactly" Breeding: "due to few specimens we do not know how they breed" Adaptation: "scientists still unsure how do they.." There's a hella new world yet to be discovered!!!
Anglerfish, gulper eels and chimaeras or alright with me. But there's something about this squid's right-angle elbows and extra long stringy tentacles that give me chills.
I still find it absolutely awesome that the abyssal depths are full of things we've only literally seen fleeting glimpses of, which may well not be fully grown specimens.
The deep ocean is so cool. I wish someone could make an automated fleet of drones to explore and catalog these incredible species. Maybe when the drone runs out of battery it could deploy a flotation device and float to the surface to recharge with solar panels.
I love aquatic life, I love prehistoric life, and I’m FASCINATED with the idea of finding alien life And that’s why I’m so excited to get Subnautica Below Zero in 23 days
Man, imagine if some of the extinct ones were still around. We got giraffes, but there were essentially smaller ones with a butterfly shaped horn. Anything Triassic tbh, etc
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Imagine an alternate timeline where this video went viral instead of DSO's video
Isn't it poisonous, like jellyfish? Also: if I had long extensions on my limbs like that, I would also keep them away to the side. If nothing else, I bet they are useless if they ever accidentally get wound or knotted together.
I hate that it has elbows. All the rest of the elements of this creature is fine, just average squid stuff, but that fact that it has ELBOWS on its little ribbon tentacles shows that god has left us long ago.
Used to run with an octopus back in the day, dude said he was the son of Marcus Garvey. He posted with iron and obeyed hood laws, we clicked like high heels on wood floors.
I find it kind of strange, that despite all of the fascinating, unique & bizarre adaptations that this squid has evolved (like those incredibly long tentacles), the best label the scientists naming it could come up with is the "Big-Fin Squid"..!? I mean, seriously...
I‘ve heard it nicknamed the „marionette squid“ on some occasions, because its tentacles kinda look like puppet strings. Now that’s positively terrifying.
@@rainpooper7088 It makes me wonder if it's evolved some kind of venom - similar to a jellyfish - that it exudes out on it's skin. As it drifts along, fish get caught in those long trailing arms, are paralyzed, then slowly dragged up to their doom... (There is precedent for envenomation in cephalopods, as it's distant cousin, The Blue Ringed Octopus, had a nasty venom (highly lethal to humans) that it injects with it's bite.)
"Unsurprisingly, they live in the ocean, as they are a species of squid." Me: What? Nah, banana oil. Edit: For those unaware, banana oil is 20's slang for: ridiculous, nonsense, or a sarcastic 'no way!'
Imagine randomly teleporting into the deep sea in front of this thing and having a whole minute of immunity to the pressure coldness and lack of oxygen
I thought I was watching the deep sea oddities channel for a second there. Also, I didn't know that no adult specimen has been conclusively proven to be seen.
Thank you for giving the Big Fin Squid it's 15 minutes off fame. This is my favorite Squid of all the geneas and in the last little while have begun gaining attention. So little do we know about this Drake that has been swimming in our oceans for possibly at least 300 million years. I wonder what caused it's evolution and adaptation to grow such elongated tentacles, and where in the deep ocean does a mother Big Fin lay it's eggs
"Pine cones go in there, party liquors come out there, and proceed to there; fights begin, fingerprints is took, days is lost, bail is made, court dates are ignored, cycle is repeated.”
Idk what it is about this guy's voice - I just did this whole dialog in my head with his voice that ended with "I live in my mum's basement, she doesn't even know I'm alive, she thinks I died it a tragic Segway accident years ago."
I first heard about these (also called Longarm Squids) on my son's favourite kids' show, Octonauts. Think underwater Star Trek for kids with cute animal characters. They teach about real marine life too. You might get some ideas for other Animals of the Week there, like the Immortal Jellyfish or Mimic Octopus.
It’s funny how that if we’d seen this thing emerge from a spaceship we’d all lose our minds yet the mere realization that it lives in the ocean on our planet make us go like ‘meh’
i love these guys. they're always on the CrEePiEsT cReAtuReS lists, they invoke primal horror in everyone who sees them, and then when you look at the picture it's literally just some dude hanging out and floating around
Props to the cameraman who thought it was a good idea to take a photo of a lovecraftian creature in the "things you only see at 3am in the woods" filter
Seems entirely likely they'd feed similarly to the Vampire Squid by trailing it's tentacles behind it and scraping off the material that collects on it.
Heck yeah a video about a friend!!! I would hug a bigfin squid. Also i like how this video is just: we know nothing, all hail the deep ones. This is truly a creature of the void
This video in summary: *we just really don’t know what their deal is, but they’re squids and they’re janky*
your comment made me laugh audibly.
It's the Waluigi Squid
Hehe real and true
Im looking forward to a see a video about the breeding rituals from eels on this channel.
😂
This thing definitely doesn’t filter feed…. It feeds on the dreams of children
Make that the dreams of adults too
Because holy shit
here we see a reconstruction of a recently discovered fossil.
this abominable creature is called finger boy, and was thought to siphon the dreams of children through their ears wilst they slumbered.
@@aidanmatthewgalea7761 man I miss Sam
Well I'm sure it still has to filter through them
@@Snp2024 *Hey kids*
Marine biologists: Why are you like this?!?!
Bigfin squid: *Screaming*
SCP Foundation: *It’s free real estate*
Me typing out THIS EXACT COMMENT ABOVE
What do any of these dumbass comments mean ? Zoomers are programmed to just spit memes.
@@mikesideburns9791 youtube comments just regurgitate the same handful of memes
@@fuckaduck5748 it's very bizarre. Most of the time they aren't relevant and funny.
"They, unsurprisingly, live in the ocean, as they are in fact a species of squid."
The Ben G Thomas channel always teaches me amazing things I never knew about the natural world...
In seriousness, this creature is a favourite of articles and youtube videos discussing the weird animals in the ocean. I love showing an image of one to my friends and seeing them develop thalassophobia in real-time
What would a land squid look like?
A puddle of flesh squids got no bones
@@lasgalon B O N E L E S S - S Q U I D
@@AccidentalNinja wait 200 million years and we'll find out
@@Zodore. yessir. I'm watching like the elite scientist I am. It is only 200m years. Unlike these plebs... smh
The size of this thing is ungodly terrifying. Especially since most photos don't show off it's full length, the tentacles always off screen yet taking up the majority of the picture.
They probably can satisfied womens with those tentaclens
@@megonggaga8046 please get your mind out of the gutter
@@megonggaga8046 what the freak 🤓
@@megonggaga8046 not all women be satisfied, some will be creeped out
And that picture is just a baby squid there even bigger one.
Squids are not aliens, but there sure do their damned best to look like aliens
If they were aliens, I'm pretty sure they'd just be the Millennial aliens (Millennians?) from Godzilla 2000.
What if they were?
@「 Deadpoppin 」 👽
They do, they really do
@「 Deadpoppin 」 😳
“This week, we’ll be talking about the horrible nightmare fuel squid” he says with perfect scientific poise
Should have just named the squid that
That’s not a squid, that’s a space station!!!
I'm not saying its Aliens..... but its aliens!!!🤯
*suspenseful Star Wars music plays*
@@datt5698 ITS SPACE ALIENS MAN!
@@thatone5884 I'm an Alien👽👾
*War of the Worlds tripod horn*
Big fin!? More like the OH HELL NAH squid
What does that even mean
@@turdeyeblind he's scared.
Sorry I just thought it was a comment people who breathe with their mouths say... Oo Nature, you scary! That’s not even scary
Alright Gabriel, settle down.
@@turdeyeblind what? What does that even mean?
And we dont even know their *adult* forms just like the Colossal Squids! This is just another reason why Deep Oceans are terrifying and any reasonable individual would like to decide working on Space Colonies rather than trying to colonize deep aquatic inhabitats
But what if it's a space colony on an ocean planet
Agree ... These little guys just might be immature versions of much larger animals (Like insects, they may go thru various physical body variations)
@@ericf.1410 Thats just whole another level of terror
Bro, there's really nothing in the water. And the things you get to see don't even do much
@C K There are stories, told by seamen, down thru the ages, that we land lubbers, have laughed at and discounted as fairy tales and great exaggerations of sea monsters ... Maybe, some day in the future we will have physical proof of their tales ...
why would the squid ever want to raise its arms above its head
squid:
*Y*
*M*
*C*
*A*
The squid could probably make all 4 letters at once. What a power move.
I don't get it.. can someone explain? ;-;
@@feetfinderguy7044 So, there’s a song called YMCA and sometimes people act out the letters when they come on the song
“Put your hands in the air, and wave ‘em like you just don’t care”
Hell M C A
No matter what you say, you can't convince me that's not an alien.
That shit came straight out of subnautica.
Fun Fact: Pretty Sure The Octopus Might Genuinely Be An Alien
its dna is odd
Hell yes one of my favorite animals and channels, DeepSeaOddities!
I had the same reaction
@@PersonOfRandomnesss same
Same here lol
Hell yeah
same
Some of these animals look too fragile to survive in the deep oceans. This is one of them.
Looks too fragile to survive outside of the deep oceans.
Looks too horrifying to live in the earth
fun fact, people only explode down below due to the fact we have even slivers of air in our bodies, creating pressure differences that rupture any organ/ membrane not complying with the established pressure to a tenth of a unit.
most fish in the deep have vastly reduced ascent methods outside of motion control, and as such their internals are used to outputting in crude amounts, as the pressure regulates everything for them, hence why they basically detonate upon retrieval
@lets get *burbs* funky Hate to meet the thing that would look at this and think "Mmmm, tasty!"
@@OLD_CROW but thats what glass noodles are made of king!
Ah yes more of a the horrors of the deep lol.
at least its a filter feeder lol
@@ayylmao2190 As long as it doesn’t get big enough to filter feed on me...
Ben: This is a Bigfin Squid.
Also Ben: Not once will I mention its BIG FINS.
Love you, Ben. Just gotta give you a hard time.
When I saw the first image, I thought: Imagine the prehistoric equivalent of this. Dragging down Mosasaurus to the depths of the sea. (Although that probably wouldn't happen)
Let’s be fair, mososaurs probably ate their prehistoric equivalents as pallet cleansers.
Unless they were way bigger in the prehistoric days, I don’t think at there current size they’d be able to
@@heilmodrhinnheimski I'm not sure .. something would have preyed on the mososaurs' ancestors at some point to cause them to evolve into such monsters. Squid actually take down sperm whales. Who knows how huge they were in the past? They are mostly gelantinous. Not much fossil evidence would survive. Even the beaks would dissolve eventually.
@@thememoryhole9355 Something did, in fact. The ancestors of mososaurs belonged to the same family as monitor lizards and looked more or less the same. These ancestral monitors couldn’t compete with the non-avian dinosaurs and they and their eggs were often eaten by them as prey. To get away from their terrestrial superiors, they began escaping to marine waters when threatened. At first, they stated mostly near shallow, coastal waters where they had very little competition, until they had finally evolved enough marine adaptions to be able to venture out into deeper waters, where they would eventually have become apex predators.
Bigfin Squid: *Sees Box Jellyfish*
Bigfin Squid: ”Write that down! Write that down!”
Finally, a vid about these guys!
Looks like we found mini Cthulhu
No that would be the flying squid.
I was thinking more like: The Kraken, Tripods (War of the worlds 2005), or even the giant octopus from King Kong vs Godzilla (1962)
The fact that I know the *boy* in your pfp
What’s the name of the artist in your pfp
@@skrrrrrrrrt DrossArt
Bigfin Squid is a bad name, lets go with Chandelier Squid, Dragline Squid, or Tassel Squid for the new common name instead.
also i just assumed the "elbows" were the true end of the arms and they dragged tentacles from the tips of their arms. like maybe they could retract them when not in use.
Or we could go with Demon Squid.
Fishing Line Squid?
how about
*my sleep paralasis demon squid
I like Mega Daddy Longlegs Squid
@@thememoryhole9355 LMFAOOO
Hey evolution can you give me reeeaaally long tentacles?
To catch food from the ocean floor?
Yeeees
* actually does something mysterious with them *
henticle tentai ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
haha underrated comment
@noobies 9998 *yes* ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
*becomes cutout content t-pose squid
@@hubialo548 "If it exists..."
"unsurprisingly they live in the ocean"
are you sure
They may just be on vacation. They probably teleport into some deep sea resort. They're just doing a little snorkeling.
holy shit
They obviously live in interstellar space
No they actually tend to live floating above your house specifically
Feeding: "we still dont know exactly"
Breeding: "due to few specimens we do not know how they breed"
Adaptation: "scientists still unsure how do they.."
There's a hella new world yet to be discovered!!!
OMFG YES! THIS IS MY FAVORITE ANIMAL! They've helped me decide a career to pursue (something related to marine biology)
:)
They help me not pick a career (anything related to marine biology)
@@leoalphaproductions8642 I don't blame you...
Hahahah same, this animal made me want to become a marine biologist
that was nice of them
Anglerfish, gulper eels and chimaeras or alright with me. But there's something about this squid's right-angle elbows and extra long stringy tentacles that give me chills.
I still find it absolutely awesome that the abyssal depths are full of things we've only literally seen fleeting glimpses of, which may well not be fully grown specimens.
The deep ocean is so cool. I wish someone could make an automated fleet of drones to explore and catalog these incredible species. Maybe when the drone runs out of battery it could deploy a flotation device and float to the surface to recharge with solar panels.
Genius
In theory, that could actually work.
Ferb, I know what we're doing today.
Getting strong War of the worlds vibe.
I love aquatic life, I love prehistoric life, and I’m FASCINATED with the idea of finding alien life
And that’s why I’m so excited to get Subnautica Below Zero in 23 days
y 23
@@guymanhumanperson maybe that's when it comes out?
@@guymanhumanperson
My birthday is in 23 days and the games already been out
@@forevermarked5826
Games already been released
@@helpkirbyhasagun_2047 ok
This is actually the most terrifying thing i’ve ever heard of and now i’m pretty sure Cthulhu is lurking somewhere in the earths oceans
“Hey nature, can I have long ass tentacles?”
“Why?”
“Ya know, to scare the shit out of humans…”
“Lmao bet”
I like how the 1st picture is always used to explain aliens and Chutulhu-like possible creatures and it is simply a squid
Ah finally, the creepy slender squid. It’s much less scary when it bonks its head on expensive drilling equipment.
I like how the ratio is literally 1 dislike to 1.5 THOUSAND likes, it’s perfect!
Other deep sea creatures: "we have evolved to endure harsh conditions. Sacrificing aesthetic beauty for raw efficiency."
Bigfin squid: *T-poses*
Waited for this... absolutely horrifyingly interesting
When I saw the thumbnail, I nearly thought this was a Deepsea Oddities video.
I swear, living things on earth might be way more weirdly built than aliens
Man, imagine if some of the extinct ones were still around. We got giraffes, but there were essentially smaller ones with a butterfly shaped horn. Anything Triassic tbh, etc
Imagine an alternate timeline where this video went viral instead of DSO's video
Dso?
@@just_a_guy9688 deepsea oddities
Isn't it poisonous, like jellyfish?
Also: if I had long extensions on my limbs like that, I would also keep them away to the side. If nothing else, I bet they are useless if they ever accidentally get wound or knotted together.
They aren't poisonous
Honestly the only reason I think we’re so uncomfortable with it is due to the elbow making it like a spider.
The unofficial mascot of the DeepSeaOddities Channel.
The ammount of passive aggressiveness of this video is just to endearing to me, considering how serious Ben usually is.
Thought it said “bigfun squid” and I was like sounds good
The fact that I live on the same planet as this thing makes me want to gauge my eyes out, play some jimmy durante, and jump into a coral reef
I hate that it has elbows. All the rest of the elements of this creature is fine, just average squid stuff, but that fact that it has ELBOWS on its little ribbon tentacles shows that god has left us long ago.
On the last pic, you can see it without elbows, which means it's not a fixed feature. The tentacles looking like insect legs makes it so freaky.
Used to run with an octopus back in the day, dude said he was the son of Marcus Garvey. He posted with iron and obeyed hood laws, we clicked like high heels on wood floors.
Had to reread the title cause I thought it said Big Effin Squid lol
Remember kids if you want aliens, go extremely deep into the ocean.
I find it kind of strange, that despite all of the fascinating, unique & bizarre adaptations that this squid has evolved (like those incredibly long tentacles), the best label the scientists naming it could come up with is the "Big-Fin Squid"..!?
I mean, seriously...
I‘ve heard it nicknamed the „marionette squid“ on some occasions, because its tentacles kinda look like puppet strings. Now that’s positively terrifying.
@@rainpooper7088 It makes me wonder if it's evolved some kind of venom - similar to a jellyfish - that it exudes out on it's skin. As it drifts along, fish get caught in those long trailing arms, are paralyzed, then slowly dragged up to their doom...
(There is precedent for envenomation in cephalopods, as it's distant cousin, The Blue Ringed Octopus, had a nasty venom (highly lethal to humans) that it injects with it's bite.)
their tentacles are not just long and slender they are also tapering and looks like they have joints.
I thought this was just art when I saw this posted on instagram holy crap
0:06 "...except its not an alien, its the Big Fin Squid" - Gordon Freeman disagrees.
This squid: I may be a child but I will assert my dominance over the human race
Very cute
"Unsurprisingly, they live in the ocean, as they are a species of squid."
Me: What? Nah, banana oil.
Edit: For those unaware, banana oil is 20's slang for: ridiculous, nonsense, or a sarcastic 'no way!'
Imagine randomly teleporting into the deep sea in front of this thing and having a whole minute of immunity to the pressure coldness and lack of oxygen
Out of all the people I could’ve found, how did I find you? You might recognize me. Probably not.
Nah they just rais their tentacles over their heads to they can praise cthulhu and/or dab on predators/prey
some squid: just vibing
humans: OOOO SEA MONSTER WOOAHHDIHHSGJAJFJAS
AYYYY BIGFINN
FINALLY!! I’ve been looking for more videos abt this squid for a year! I find them so cool!
I don't think it's an an animal at all actually, I think it's an alien spaceship
I love how we all went through the entire video thinking this was like 10 meters
Looks like something from a cursed image meme
02:38 "We honestly just don't know how they are able to breed with their long tentacles in their way."
**laughs in Jamaican**
I thought I was watching the deep sea oddities channel for a second there. Also, I didn't know that no adult specimen has been conclusively proven to be seen.
New to your channel and it's just what I'm looking for!! Thanks!
I've played Half Life I know a Nihilanth when I see one
"You are not alone.."
"This week we will be talking about the stuff of nightmares."
“I WILL TENTACLE U TO DETH”
“Lol jk” - magnipina squid (probably)
Put trackers on the live squids in the wild and track their movements and growth.
0:29 I asked in a video by MBARI if the big fin squid is just a young Giant Squid but they told me that they are just another squid entirely.
Been waiting for more videos by someone new covering this animal
“Collecting plankton”
Plankton from sponge bob: ay I gotta stop you right there
Thank you for giving the Big Fin Squid it's 15 minutes off fame. This is my favorite Squid of all the geneas and in the last little while have begun gaining attention. So little do we know about this Drake that has been swimming in our oceans for possibly at least 300 million years. I wonder what caused it's evolution and adaptation to grow such elongated tentacles, and where in the deep ocean does a mother Big Fin lay it's eggs
"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region"
0:18 That's an asteromorph from all tomorrows
the first image looks so chilling... it’s like something out of all tomorrows
Big Fin Squid irl: _long boi_
Big Fin Squid in the popular photo: *_"freeeeeemaaaaaan."_*
"Pine cones go in there, party liquors come out there, and proceed to there; fights begin, fingerprints is took, days is lost, bail is made, court dates are ignored, cycle is repeated.”
This thing gives me the shivers
Idk what it is about this guy's voice - I just did this whole dialog in my head with his voice that ended with "I live in my mum's basement, she doesn't even know I'm alive, she thinks I died it a tragic Segway accident years ago."
This scared me a lot when I was littler and I know I'm not the only one who got scared
Aw, I think he's real neat with his long, fancy arms. Fancy boi.
You know, I've never been afraid of the ocean after watching 'scary' ocean videos but THIS? Scuba diving is never going to be the same...
I first heard about these (also called Longarm Squids) on my son's favourite kids' show, Octonauts. Think underwater Star Trek for kids with cute animal characters. They teach about real marine life too. You might get some ideas for other Animals of the Week there, like the Immortal Jellyfish or Mimic Octopus.
IM SO GLAD YOU DID A VIDEO ON THIS!
It’s funny how that if we’d seen this thing emerge from a spaceship we’d all lose our minds yet the mere realization that it lives in the ocean on our planet make us go like ‘meh’
I see a lot of people commenting saying it’s a bigfin squid. Well, it was confirmed to be a magnapinna squid.
i love these guys. they're always on the CrEePiEsT cReAtuReS lists, they invoke primal horror in everyone who sees them, and then when you look at the picture it's literally just some dude hanging out and floating around
Props to the cameraman who thought it was a good idea to take a photo of a lovecraftian creature in the "things you only see at 3am in the woods" filter
Magnapina squids are my second favorite group of animals
Can we appreciate the fact that this guy doesnt make this video intentionally scary?
Bigfin squids are so rad, I hope that people try harder to study them because I’d love to know more
In pictures this thing is terrifying. But in videos of it, it's squishy and majestic.
Javelin Cuttlefish: I'm the weirdest!
Axolotl: No I'm the weirdest!
Big fin: Amateur... Pathetic
*All Tomorrows flashbacks intensify*
Seems entirely likely they'd feed similarly to the Vampire Squid by trailing it's tentacles behind it and scraping off the material that collects on it.
Yes. I think so too.
Heck yeah a video about a friend!!! I would hug a bigfin squid.
Also i like how this video is just: we know nothing, all hail the deep ones. This is truly a creature of the void