Top 10 Most Terrifying Deep-Sea Creatures

The ultimate symbol of the deep sea. It lures prey in the pitch dark with a bioluminescent 'lamp' above its head, then swallows them with needle-sharp teeth.

Has creepy pink skin, a long pointed snout and jaws that it can shoot forward centimeters when attacking, like a monster from the movie Alien.

The inspiration for the mythical Kraken. With eyes as big as frisbees and tentacles armed with rotating hooks, they battle sperm whales kilometers deep.

Its jaws can open so wide that it can swallow prey larger than itself, after which its elastic stomach swells to enormous proportions.

'The vampire squid from hell'. It has jet-black skin with webbing between its arms like a cape, with spiny projections on the inside of its arms.

Out of the water a shapeless, depressing-looking blob of jelly, but at 1,000 meters deep it is perfectly adapted to the huge pressure without needing a solid skeleton.

A pitch-black little predator with a glowing chin barbel and teeth so transparent that prey literally can't see them coming in the dark.

A woodlouse the size of a large cat that scavenges across the ocean floor for carcasses of whales and fish that have sunk to the bottom.

Has a completely transparent, fluid-filled dome for a head, inside which its bright green tubular eyes can rotate upward to spot shadows.

A living fossil that has remained virtually unchanged for eighty million years. It looks like a prehistoric eel with three hundred three-pointed teeth in rows.