Brutkey

Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca

@paulschoe@mastodon.world @nhok@ieji.de there's a good article in Nature from this year showing discoveries of animal ecosystems at that depth. They are chemo synthetic -- they live off the energy from volcanic vents. Unfortunately, they don't look a lot like the animals in nhok's video.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09317-z

Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca

@paulschoe@mastodon.world @nhok@ieji.de BBC coverage here

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wnqe5j99do

Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca

@paulschoe@mastodon.world @nhok@ieji.de i found a copy of the video using Google image search here, but without any other credits

https://www.aparat.com/v/fmfpnem

Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca

@paulschoe@mastodon.world @nhok@ieji.de here it is on Instagram. Still no credit!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG_SMNpMUPs/

Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca

@paulschoe@mastodon.world @nhok@ieji.de i don't think either one is the source though. 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

@evan@cosocial.ca I went back from there to a possible source on Instagram using AI: https://mastodon.online/@NatureMC/115566625496867055

@paulschoe@mastodon.world @nhok@ieji.de

Petra van Cronenburg
@NatureMC@mastodon.online

@paulschoe@mastodon.world @nhok@ieji.de Well, I found the origin of some of these pics on an Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/p/DLTJblnMu2r/ (different video) They had this video you posted but deleted it later.

This account, which misuses the title of a well-known documentary, ‘Ocean Odyssey,’ is notorious for AI! Sometimes they mix real pics in their account. All for collecting a maximum of followers for their promotion for an online "gambling casino".

They never react when people comment that they show AI.

#AIslop

Evan Prodromou
@evan@cosocial.ca

@NatureMC@mastodon.online @paulschoe@mastodon.world @nhok@ieji.de so, one of the big question marks is how colourful all the animals are. At that depth, almost no light is present, so there's not a lot of evolutionary value in colourful displays. Nobody can see them!