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The deep sea is seemingly very inhospitable to life with very low amounts of food available, high pressures and low temperatures. This is partly true because there is less life per square meter spread across the deep however, giant creatures are still able to evolve in these environments, so why is this? To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/MothLightMedia To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://www.paypal.me/mothlightmedia To buy merchandise: teespring.com/en-GB/stores/moth-light... Email: mothlightmedia@outlook.com If I have used artwork that belongs to you but have neglected to credit it this will just be because I was unable to find one. If this has happened please contact me and I will add a credit. Some Art work has been altered for the purposes of bettering them for video format; these alterations were done independent from the artists who created the original work, so they are not responsible for any inaccuracies that could have occurred with the changes being made. Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967064512001932 https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-015-0446-6 https://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/Technical%20Report/tr83.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318757376_Biological_report_of_a_giant_deep-sea_squid_Onykia_robusta_collected_from_the_Sanriku_Coast_Japan_implications_for_low_genetic_diversity https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2808249/#:~:text=But%20there%20is%20little%20evidence,39%5D%E2%80%93%5B41%5D. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227723204_The_island_rule_and_the_evolution_of_body_size_in_the_deep_sea https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.12444 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790318305189 https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(19)30035-9?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2590238519300359%3Fshowall%3Dtrue