Life is fragile, and an inadvertent blow may cause a life to leave the world; life is also tenacious, and there are various species living tenaciously even in the deep sea.
The deep sea is mysterious and terrifying. There are many scary creatures in it, which will make people with deep sea phobia get goosebumps all over their bodies. For example, the one I’m going to talk about next—the great king footed insect.
The king worm is actually a crustacean, but some people classify it as an insect because their close relative, the terrestrial terrestrial bug, is a very common insect.
Judging from its appearance alone, the King Parapod looks like an alien creature from a horror movie. Those who didn’t know it thought it was an alien visitor.
The body length of the king worm can reach 19 to 37 centimeters, making it the largest isopod in existence. In the high-pressure environment of the deep sea, an animal of this size is rare, so they are called deep-sea giants. It has a flat body with hard scaly calcium exoskeletons on its back and abdomen. In this way, the scaly exoskeletons are integrated with the head, bottom and tail, like a shield. Its eyes are compound eyes composed of nearly 4,000 small flat eyes. The weird triangular shape makes it look even weirder. The seven pairs of jointed limbs resemble 14 sickles. In addition, it has two pairs of beards on both sides of its head. If a timid person encounters it in the deep sea, he may be frightened.
80% of the king worms live in the ocean at a depth of 365-730 meters, but the king worms can be seen in the dark deep sea areas from 210 meters to 2140 meters deep. As you can see, the seawater pressure here is extremely high and the temperature can be as low as four degrees Celsius, which is a great test for the vitality of the creatures living in this area. King beetles usually live alone in mud or clay layers.
The king worm is a kind of scavenger. Their main food is the corpses of dead marine organisms, such as dead whales, squids, sharks, etc. In addition, they will also actively hunt some slow-moving animals. marine life. Scavengers tend to remind people of some of the bugs in the cemetery in horror movies, thus giving them a veil of horror.
Endure hunger
In the depths of the ocean, there is far less food than in shallow seas. Even dead creatures actually rarely come here, so the king of worms They often face food shortages, so after a long period of evolution, they have evolved physiological characteristics that can endure hunger for a long time. The giant footworm "No. 1" raised at the Toba City Aquarium in Mie Prefecture, Japan, has been on a hunger strike for 5 years and 43 years. The death of the queen of heaven is also the longest known animal hunger strike, putting it beyond the reach of the turtles we know.
It’s just such a terrifying creature. Do you think it is invincible? No, no matter how strange and weird the appearance is, as long as it is edible, no matter how deep it is hidden, it will not be able to resist the "foodies" among humans. Therefore, it has been made into a delicacy. It is said that it has a crisp texture and is very delicious.