>>6482341>>6482353ive got my own theory on this from watching too much discovery channel
yah, theres almost no energy down that deep for living things to use, but they say that a single whale carcass that sinks to the bottom, even after the sharks are done with it, can feed an entire ecosystem of weird shit for DECADES
literally all a fuckhuge thing would need to do to survive down there is be able to detect those hotspots and hibernate when there isnt one close enough
and when it can find one, literally the biggest thing it would have to fight off is nurse sharks, if that. probably only hagfish and crabs though
also, deep sea gigantism IS a thing, just look at those giant isopod fucks
