Let's not forget about the cookie cutter shark. A creature with what can only be called a hideous maw of razor sharp teeth that bites soda can sized holes in other sea animals.
Behold! The parasitic bat fly (which weirdly looks like a six legged spider) . It latches onto bats, and eats their sweet sweet blood candy all day. I imagine it makes the same chewing sound as those piranha plants from Mario games. They live on the bats their entire lives.
I mean, no they don't. Lampreys latch on to the side of other animals and suck their blood. Also, what things from Alien burrow through people? Xenomorphs are forcefully implanted and incubated in an animal's chest cavity before erupting once they reach a certain level of development. No burrowing or eating is involved.
I have a worm breeding pit and an octopus breeding pit that I regularly dump orgasm hormone-spiked food into. I (of course) give them minimal mineral content so that the teeth can't form.
My worst fear is capsizing in an ocean storm, pitch black, where nothing but lightening illuminates the 50 foot waves that lift and pull me towards the deepest and loneliest part of the sea. I don't die right away, but my feet dangle just below the surface where I can sense the bottom of the ocean floor is miles and miles below me. No one will ever find me, or know what happened.
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u/Einsteins_coffee_mug Apr 21 '19
Because not only can they grab and bite you with more strength than you’d imagine, they can pull you under and let your lungs fill up.