I think this is one of the most fascinating and probably extreme forms of parasitism I've heard of, so kudos for making the Deep Ones feel particularly unnerving. Though these ones probably have no particular interest in humans unless approached first. As for ideas, I've found the questing beast from Arthurian legends a lesser-known but interesting chimera. It was a beast with the head of a snake, the body of a leopard, the launches of a lion, and the feet of a deer. It was the subject of multiple failed quests to capture it before finally being captured after Palamedes, Percival, and Galahad chased it into a lake.
Thank you very much for the video. The fish-man is one of my favorite classic monsters. I like the idea that the deep ones are a super species of frog adapted to salt water. Well, unlike the Mermaids/Mermen, the Deep-ones or Gillmen have legs and fish faces. And while it still seems too unlikely to me that they were bipedal, I liked that in your concept they were mainly quadrupedal (as even Lovercraft describes them). As for their reproduction, because it seemed too fantastical to me, I prefer to say that it is just a myth created by the fear they generate (many real animals have myths assigned to them).
Idea: speculative biology of siren head as a tree like stick insect the ningen as a antarctic turtle tripodero as a bird like alien skyrods as krill like centipede jean jacket as a gigantic reiltive to the greys but without accessory bodies and the sandworms as gargantuan relitive to the bobbit worms that evolved to breath air and lived in the deserts when their oceans dried up
Idea: Speculative Biology The World Of Living Titans... Including The Episodes: (1) Guinea Creatures From South Park (2) Red Death From How To Train Your Dragon (3) Kronos (4) Grootslang (5) Colossal Titan From Attack On Titan (6) The Bloop (7) Behemoth From Trevor Henderson (8) Cyclops (9) Quetzalcoatl (Serpentine Dragons) (10) Ogre (11) Orc (12) Atlas (13) Alaskan Bull Worm (14) Cromulons From Rick And Morty (15) Hail Mary From Invincible (16) Baku (17) Ankylodicurus From Jurassic World Alive (18) Shenron From Dragon Ball Z (19) Rajang From Monster Hunter (20) Zunesha From One Piece (21) Mumakil From Lord Of The Rings (22) Monstro From Disney's Pinocchio (23) Titanosaur From Ark Survival Evolved (24) Dino-Birds From Ice Age (25) Manotaur From Gravity Falls (26) Rancor From Star Wars (27) Erumpent From Fantastic Beast (28) Krebskulm From How Not To Summon A Demon Lord Anime (29) Lumber From The New Dinosaurs (30) Gigantelope From After Man (31) Raboon From After Man (32) Slothman From Man After Man (34) Sandworms From Beetlejuice (35) Moby Duck (36) Mothman (37) Monster Ellsmere From Spellbound (38) Monster Solon From Spellbound (39) Beelzebub From Helluva Boss (40) Yeti
When i looked up more information about the Nian I've thought of something interesting matching some of its descriptions: - having prominent incisors - fear of the color red - earliest recorded accounts being from the early 20th century It got me thinking of a carnivorous marsupial like a pouch lion (thylacoleo) that ended up in China. - they relied on sharp incisors to pierce flesh rather than canines - most placental mammals can't see the color red, but marsupials can - it's habitat preferences being the mountains or the sea could refer to either how it got to China from Australia, or it's been recently migrating to lower ground from millennia of living in the mountains. Which would make it an invasive species either way.
Though I know very little about Lovecraftian lore I am pleased to see such a uh….fascinating animal be covered on the channel. I was unaware of how such beings worked and I would like to see more Lovecraft on the channel such a Nyarothalep (I think that’s how you spell it) and I can’t wait for what is to come next in the closure of 2024. Today I would like to present an idea for a short episode: El Gran Maja! As we explore deeper and deeper into earth’s oceans more and more, many a horror can be unearthed. Such as a creature found off the coast of the Caribbean, deep in the Atlantic. It has been rarely spotted with only a couple of sightings during the 16th century onwards. The people who saw it named it “El Gran Maja” or “The Great Maza” due to its colossal size, even bigger than the Blue Whale. Very little was known about it until recently and up until now it was only considered an urban legend. El Gran Maja is an unusually massive species of siphonophore measuring about 40 meters in length though it is incredibly thick for this kind of animal. Despite its cnidarian heritage it resembles more so a massive eel with a large grinning face. This “jaw” is large as to help it ingest massive quantities of food through suction and trapping them in large stiffened tendrils that resemble teeth. These siphonophores have six organs in the head that seem to act as eyes in their dark environment, observing anything that may cross their path. El Gran Maja usually hunt by sensing large quantities of organic material through the release of loud low frequency sounds similar to The Bloop or Julia. Once they detect food they quickly rise up in the sea to the surface to quickly gulp down whatever is there by expelling large amounts of water from behind. This raises buoyancy and lets them get to the surface before quickly intaking water and descending below once again. These animals have been known to prey upon anything that they can sense from entire schools of fish to some species of whale and large sharks. They have been known to live for decades with the oldest reaching at least a couple centuries due to their slow metabolism taking ages to digest food. So far incredibly little has been discovered about these marvellous predators but that might hopefully change soon with the advent of deep sea diving equipment in the modern era. See you next week and Happy Halloween!
@@speculativewildlife That's art, I guess. Sometimes we don't like the artist but we see something in their art. Maybe I just have a different set of dislikes.
@@speculativewildlife I honestly relate to him a lot, since he was autistic and asexual and focused more on science than people. The trouble is that the environment he grew up in was very insular and if I had stayed with my parents instead of moving out at 18 I might have been the exact same way. Nature vs nurture...
The amount of creativity you invoked for this is boggling. Truly amazing. I love how Father Dagon is just a really old, really big deep one. And the scientific name, weird ocean frog, was inspired. My roommate and I drew pictures of the creatures made up with cards in our trait pile after our first game of Doomlings. I ended up with a giant flower with three eyes and a venomous bite, and he had a flying deer hero.
@speculativewildlife dunno if you'd want to actually play a game, or just deal out several cards and draw the results. I remember that my two dominant traits were Immune, and Symbiotic. So I drew little bugs that lived in the flower trunk.
I've asked for you to do Pom Pom from Honkai Star Rail before, but allow me to elaborate by asking these: - since Pom Pom is a conductor of the Astral Express (a train that flies through space), what animals or traits of animals that are comfortable on large moving vehicles such as planes, trains, and/or boats, and what services can they provide besides what we know guard dogs can do? - while Pom Pom greatly resembles a rabbit, he has forward facing eyes. Would it be more likely for his kind to be omnivores or simply herbivores like mytragus goats that had no predators where they're from? - since the goals of those who reside on the Astral Express itself align with exploring and connecting [worlds], it makes you wonder how Pom Pom's home or "world" became associated with them.
I Bet that the SWRC branch in innsmouth helped a lot with the research of the deep ones. And I can also guess that H.P Love craft made the reputation of these creatures very difficult with his outlandish fears and imagination. Assuming the SWRC is that old.
I had a hunch It would be these freakiest of freaky fish! While I would have preferred/gone with either the Frankenstein's Monster or the Grim Reaper this one was still great and not at all a bad way to end this spookiest of spooky seasons!
Could you do some of thse The plants from plants vs zombies (the original version) Team fortress 2's bread monster (could be a large cnidarian related to sea cucumbers) Half life headcrabs (likely large terrestrial descendants of whale lice that became more predatory) Tigrex from Monster hunter Sentry guns from team fortress 2 (yet again) Wildmutt from ben 10 Jurassic Park dinosaurs as completely terrestrial crocodilyans
Somewhat relevant is my idea of individuals of different but similar enough species to actively interbreed to produce mixed offspring. I was told by renouned enthusiasts such as Keenan Taylor that such a behavior would be rare and unintentional. But if an animal were to do it on purpose what are some prerequisites to doing so? And you know how members of ring species collections can only interbreed with certain lines? What if there's a "finger" lineage that can copulate with any member of the ring lines?
Hello Speculative Wildlife research center , If you don't mind I have a awesome creature called the Akhlut it comes from the Inuit Mythology and it's basically a wolf that can shapeshift into a Orca . Maybe you can make a video with it ? ( It's just a suggestion) , also I really like your videos. Especially the one with the gremlins.
@@speculativewildlifethe salt water and tough scales would leach most of the frog flavor out. They have a lot in common with sharks, so I imagine that like sharks the ammonia soaks into their flesh and makes them unpalatable.
Incredible video and I must say this sure was an amazing way to cap off the season of spooks though on that note, have you thought about at any point covering arguably one of the most reviled and horrifying creations of the early Internet given how you’ve already covered two creatures quite heavily linked to it. A beast made all the more horrifying by the fact that it’s mere mention under this new kind of light may attract the attention of a beast far more repugnant and horrific given how it would be likely perceived in a light that feeds into some of its more memorable delusions like fresh fuel to a fire, I am of course talking about Sonichu. In all seriousness I do feel that Sonichu would make for a great April fools episode given how you’ve already covered a joke rendition of Pikachu for one already and for a more serious Halloween suggestion given the topic of this video have you thought about potentially covering the color from out of space as I do feel like it could work as a collection of extraterrestrial extremophiles and from there it could be fun to explore how and why it alters the local ecosystem either by destroying and or mutating any technically living thing it touches.
Thanks a lot! I do have considered both Sonichu and the color, those could be really fun! Sonichu in particular would be very interesting given both Sonic AND Pikachu have gotten episodes to themselves!
@@speculativewildlife indeed, and one idea I had was potentially making Sonichu a member of Afrotheria in reference to that one time where Sonichu was reinterpreted as an aardvark.
@@speculativewildlife for a straightforward and easy to keep track of summary of christory I would personally recommend the ongoing series of documentaries on Chris-Chan by FoxPawPaws here on RUclips.
Hey speculative wildlife research Centre I got a question for you. Can you make a video for me about the speculative biology of siren head please because I’m a big Trevor Henderson fan and I also got the idea sign head could be a giant species of mantis
The itch for saiyan biology grows ever stronger, so does my battle power.
Because they're aliens?
No, because you're art is beyond the power of the gods!
The parasitism is an excellent way of dealing with the cross species kids and the weird “in between” deep ones, love it
thanks! Im glad you liked it!
I think this is one of the most fascinating and probably extreme forms of parasitism I've heard of, so kudos for making the Deep Ones feel particularly unnerving. Though these ones probably have no particular interest in humans unless approached first.
As for ideas, I've found the questing beast from Arthurian legends a lesser-known but interesting chimera. It was a beast with the head of a snake, the body of a leopard, the launches of a lion, and the feet of a deer. It was the subject of multiple failed quests to capture it before finally being captured after Palamedes, Percival, and Galahad chased it into a lake.
@@elthwar ah yes, the questing beast! I actually finished a script for it, but Im reworking the idea!
Also, thanks a lot! Im glad you liked it :)
Thank you very much for the video. The fish-man is one of my favorite classic monsters.
I like the idea that the deep ones are a super species of frog adapted to salt water.
Well, unlike the Mermaids/Mermen, the Deep-ones or Gillmen have legs and fish faces.
And while it still seems too unlikely to me that they were bipedal, I liked that in your concept they were mainly quadrupedal (as even Lovercraft describes them).
As for their reproduction, because it seemed too fantastical to me, I prefer to say that it is just a myth created by the fear they generate (many real animals have myths assigned to them).
Idea: speculative biology of siren head as a tree like stick insect the ningen as a antarctic turtle tripodero as a bird like alien skyrods as krill like centipede jean jacket as a gigantic reiltive to the greys but without accessory bodies and the sandworms as gargantuan relitive to the bobbit worms that evolved to breath air and lived in the deserts when their oceans dried up
How do they stay hidden?🤔
i would like to see borg reimagined video because borg is star trek cyborg and it will be a indopithecus species.
Idea: Speculative Biology The World Of Living Titans... Including The Episodes:
(1) Guinea Creatures From South Park
(2) Red Death From How To Train Your Dragon
(3) Kronos
(4) Grootslang
(5) Colossal Titan From Attack On Titan
(6) The Bloop
(7) Behemoth From Trevor Henderson
(8) Cyclops
(9) Quetzalcoatl (Serpentine Dragons)
(10) Ogre
(11) Orc
(12) Atlas
(13) Alaskan Bull Worm
(14) Cromulons From Rick And Morty
(15) Hail Mary From Invincible
(16) Baku
(17) Ankylodicurus From Jurassic World Alive
(18) Shenron From Dragon Ball Z
(19) Rajang From Monster Hunter
(20) Zunesha From One Piece
(21) Mumakil From Lord Of The Rings
(22) Monstro From Disney's Pinocchio
(23) Titanosaur From Ark Survival Evolved
(24) Dino-Birds From Ice Age
(25) Manotaur From Gravity Falls
(26) Rancor From Star Wars
(27) Erumpent From Fantastic Beast
(28) Krebskulm From How Not To Summon A Demon Lord Anime
(29) Lumber From The New Dinosaurs
(30) Gigantelope From After Man
(31) Raboon From After Man
(32) Slothman From Man After Man
(34) Sandworms From Beetlejuice
(35) Moby Duck
(36) Mothman
(37) Monster Ellsmere From Spellbound
(38) Monster Solon From Spellbound
(39) Beelzebub From Helluva Boss
(40) Yeti
And Dont Forget Teddy Kittens And Emela Ntouka
Lovecraft: Immortal semi-marine organisms that go to land to f*ck with humans.
Reality: No changes :V
@@yamatanoorochi6203 🤣🤣🤣
When i looked up more information about the Nian I've thought of something interesting matching some of its descriptions:
- having prominent incisors
- fear of the color red
- earliest recorded accounts being from the early 20th century
It got me thinking of a carnivorous marsupial like a pouch lion (thylacoleo) that ended up in China.
- they relied on sharp incisors to pierce flesh rather than canines
- most placental mammals can't see the color red, but marsupials can
- it's habitat preferences being the mountains or the sea could refer to either how it got to China from Australia, or it's been recently migrating to lower ground from millennia of living in the mountains. Which would make it an invasive species either way.
I love this idea. Add my vote
Ocean man, take me by the hand, lead me to the land, that you understand.
I love this song so much
FAR better having the sponsor placed at the start, 100%~!
I agree, thanks a lot!
Though I know very little about Lovecraftian lore I am pleased to see such a uh….fascinating animal be covered on the channel. I was unaware of how such beings worked and I would like to see more Lovecraft on the channel such a Nyarothalep (I think that’s how you spell it) and I can’t wait for what is to come next in the closure of 2024.
Today I would like to present an idea for a short episode: El Gran Maja!
As we explore deeper and deeper into earth’s oceans more and more, many a horror can be unearthed. Such as a creature found off the coast of the Caribbean, deep in the Atlantic. It has been rarely spotted with only a couple of sightings during the 16th century onwards. The people who saw it named it “El Gran Maja” or “The Great Maza” due to its colossal size, even bigger than the Blue Whale. Very little was known about it until recently and up until now it was only considered an urban legend. El Gran Maja is an unusually massive species of siphonophore measuring about 40 meters in length though it is incredibly thick for this kind of animal. Despite its cnidarian heritage it resembles more so a massive eel with a large grinning face. This “jaw” is large as to help it ingest massive quantities of food through suction and trapping them in large stiffened tendrils that resemble teeth. These siphonophores have six organs in the head that seem to act as eyes in their dark environment, observing anything that may cross their path. El Gran Maja usually hunt by sensing large quantities of organic material through the release of loud low frequency sounds similar to The Bloop or Julia. Once they detect food they quickly rise up in the sea to the surface to quickly gulp down whatever is there by expelling large amounts of water from behind. This raises buoyancy and lets them get to the surface before quickly intaking water and descending below once again. These animals have been known to prey upon anything that they can sense from entire schools of fish to some species of whale and large sharks. They have been known to live for decades with the oldest reaching at least a couple centuries due to their slow metabolism taking ages to digest food. So far incredibly little has been discovered about these marvellous predators but that might hopefully change soon with the advent of deep sea diving equipment in the modern era.
See you next week and Happy Halloween!
Correction: nyarlathotep
Pronounced knee-are-lath-oh-tep
I love Lovecraft even if he is an -ist/-phobe.
@@franxz4401 I like his creations even if I have no respect for him
@@speculativewildlife
That's art, I guess. Sometimes we don't like the artist but we see something in their art. Maybe I just have a different set of dislikes.
@@speculativewildlife I honestly relate to him a lot, since he was autistic and asexual and focused more on science than people. The trouble is that the environment he grew up in was very insular and if I had stayed with my parents instead of moving out at 18 I might have been the exact same way. Nature vs nurture...
* “if I were a deep one” parody song intensifies
XD
The amount of creativity you invoked for this is boggling. Truly amazing. I love how Father Dagon is just a really old, really big deep one. And the scientific name, weird ocean frog, was inspired.
My roommate and I drew pictures of the creatures made up with cards in our trait pile after our first game of Doomlings. I ended up with a giant flower with three eyes and a venomous bite, and he had a flying deer hero.
Thank you so much, Im very glad you liked it! And that sounds like a very fun idea! Maybe I could do something like that for a short!
@speculativewildlife dunno if you'd want to actually play a game, or just deal out several cards and draw the results. I remember that my two dominant traits were Immune, and Symbiotic. So I drew little bugs that lived in the flower trunk.
@magnolia1253 I think playing the fake would make it fun! Maybe write its entire evolutionary history using the ages snd catastrophes!
@@speculativewildlife I love that idea.
Yes the Deeps one.
Nice video
Hey thanks!
I've asked for you to do Pom Pom from Honkai Star Rail before, but allow me to elaborate by asking these:
- since Pom Pom is a conductor of the Astral Express (a train that flies through space), what animals or traits of animals that are comfortable on large moving vehicles such as planes, trains, and/or boats, and what services can they provide besides what we know guard dogs can do?
- while Pom Pom greatly resembles a rabbit, he has forward facing eyes. Would it be more likely for his kind to be omnivores or simply herbivores like mytragus goats that had no predators where they're from?
- since the goals of those who reside on the Astral Express itself align with exploring and connecting [worlds], it makes you wonder how Pom Pom's home or "world" became associated with them.
Related species idea D&D Kuo-toa And W,O,W Murloc
I Bet that the SWRC branch in innsmouth helped a lot with the research of the deep ones. And I can also guess that H.P Love craft made the reputation of these creatures very difficult with his outlandish fears and imagination. Assuming the SWRC is that old.
The SWRC is sadly not that old, but we do have tried to both improve human relations with this species AND protect the populace from them!
I misheard bivalves as “bibles”; so I had a laugh there
It probably eats them too XD
Since they are biologically immortal, could the world’s oldest and largest one be named “Dagon”
One individual was named exactly that!
Speculative Wildlife Research Center, Do Rick Sanchez From Rick And Morty & Donkey Kong From Nintendo
I imagine the reproductive process of these monsters, also inspired some of the lifecycle process of the Xenomorphs from Alien.
Lovecraftian reproduction indeed, that was disturbing...
and a really good adaptation of the creature
@@happynihilist2573 thanks!!
you also do Ningen as a large species of white giant squid from Antarctica
I had a hunch It would be these freakiest of freaky fish! While I would have preferred/gone with either the Frankenstein's Monster or the Grim Reaper this one was still great and not at all a bad way to end this spookiest of spooky seasons!
Glad you liked the selection! We shall see what else we can do later on, maybe those too could show up off-season too!
@@speculativewildlife Or you could simply save them or NEXT October! 😉
I freaking CALLED IT! :D
Could you do some of thse
The plants from plants vs zombies (the original version)
Team fortress 2's bread monster (could be a large cnidarian related to sea cucumbers)
Half life headcrabs (likely large terrestrial descendants of whale lice that became more predatory)
Tigrex from Monster hunter
Sentry guns from team fortress 2 (yet again)
Wildmutt from ben 10
Jurassic Park dinosaurs as completely terrestrial crocodilyans
Somewhat relevant is my idea of individuals of different but similar enough species to actively interbreed to produce mixed offspring.
I was told by renouned enthusiasts such as Keenan Taylor that such a behavior would be rare and unintentional.
But if an animal were to do it on purpose what are some prerequisites to doing so?
And you know how members of ring species collections can only interbreed with certain lines? What if there's a "finger" lineage that can copulate with any member of the ring lines?
I think if two species were capable of interbreeding and having viable, fertile offspring, they would functionally be the same species!
Do the classic monsters under the bed I see as a spice of octopus that evolve to hunt young children
Awesome idea!
maybe your Speculative Deep ones could have a hive like system with Dagon being their King?
Their social groups are actually much more loose, that allows for regular small Deep ones to still be reproductive organisms!
@speculativewildlife I was just saying that since dagon is usually linked with the deep ones, and is usually seen as their leader
@@speculativewildlife How would you deal with more difficult cryptids for speculative evolution? (like the skinwalker for example)
@aidendejong574 case to case basis. I always try to adapt their characteristics as well as I can, so it depends a lot on those features
@@speculativewildlife oh, ok👍
cool video mate :D
@@margchannel7430 hey thanks :)
Hello Speculative Wildlife research center , If you don't mind I have a awesome creature called the Akhlut it comes from the Inuit Mythology and it's basically a wolf that can shapeshift into a Orca . Maybe you can make a video with it ? ( It's just a suggestion) , also I really like your videos. Especially the one with the gremlins.
@@denisamaria5715 thanks a lot! And I certainly have thought about making a video on the Akhlut!
Thank you so much
There you go great bro
Thanks!
Awesome! And first
Yaaay!
@@speculativewildlife Notification squad baby!
do they make good frog legs? What do they taste like?
@@iansong8464 I guess they taste like frog, but I have no idea what they taste like XD
@@speculativewildlifethe salt water and tough scales would leach most of the frog flavor out. They have a lot in common with sharks, so I imagine that like sharks the ammonia soaks into their flesh and makes them unpalatable.
Id like to see what you can do with zetton from ultraman
What do you think about doing speculative biology on tatzelwurms or eastern dragons?
@@nemera1356 that last one is pretty close!
Cool
An interesting take making them not sapient
Incredible video and I must say this sure was an amazing way to cap off the season of spooks though on that note, have you thought about at any point covering arguably one of the most reviled and horrifying creations of the early Internet given how you’ve already covered two creatures quite heavily linked to it. A beast made all the more horrifying by the fact that it’s mere mention under this new kind of light may attract the attention of a beast far more repugnant and horrific given how it would be likely perceived in a light that feeds into some of its more memorable delusions like fresh fuel to a fire, I am of course talking about Sonichu. In all seriousness I do feel that Sonichu would make for a great April fools episode given how you’ve already covered a joke rendition of Pikachu for one already and for a more serious Halloween suggestion given the topic of this video have you thought about potentially covering the color from out of space as I do feel like it could work as a collection of extraterrestrial extremophiles and from there it could be fun to explore how and why it alters the local ecosystem either by destroying and or mutating any technically living thing it touches.
Thanks a lot! I do have considered both Sonichu and the color, those could be really fun! Sonichu in particular would be very interesting given both Sonic AND Pikachu have gotten episodes to themselves!
@@speculativewildlife indeed, and one idea I had was potentially making Sonichu a member of Afrotheria in reference to that one time where Sonichu was reinterpreted as an aardvark.
@@KirboConnoisseur17 Interesting! I'll have to look into that!
@@speculativewildlife for a straightforward and easy to keep track of summary of christory I would personally recommend the ongoing series of documentaries on Chris-Chan by FoxPawPaws here on RUclips.
Hey speculative wildlife research Centre I got a question for you. Can you make a video for me about the speculative biology of siren head please because I’m a big Trevor Henderson fan and I also got the idea sign head could be a giant species of mantis
I plan to do it, just not sure when it will release!
Did.. did you just call him "Lovercraf"?
@@happynihilist2573 I called him Hovercraft
Please do Ben 10 aliens
Sure!
92 like 👍🏻
@@wibbit337 hey thanks!!
what is their status?
@@iansong8464 least concern!
How tall are the deep ones?
Say, like 1.5 meters or 5 feet tall!
:-( D
:)
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