From the Vault: Hunters of the Dark Ocean, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Rob and Joe discuss the recent discovery of a strange new deep-water predator and highlight some of the various weird, wild and downright gnarly hunters that haunt the deepest, darkest depths of Earth’s oceans. (part 1 of 4, originally published 3/18/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:10.2 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:12.6 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:13.6 | Today is, of course, Saturday. |
| 0:15.0 | So we have a Vault episode for you. |
| 0:17.4 | This is part one of four in our Hunters of the Dark Ocean series. This episode originally |
| 0:22.6 | aired 318, 2025. |
| 0:25.1 | It's time to get deep |
| 0:26.2 | and time to get weird. |
| 0:28.4 | Let's have it. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production |
| 0:34.7 | of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:42.0 | Music To Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:44.7 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:46.0 | And I am Joe McCormick. |
| 0:47.7 | And today on Stuff to Blow Your Mind, we're going to be starting a discussion about animal life in the deepest parts of the ocean, specifically the deep |
| 0:56.2 | oceans predators, looking at what it takes to be an active hunter in the deep. And I thought a good |
| 1:03.9 | place to start off with this series would be the story that inspired me to look at this topic, |
| 1:10.4 | and that was the discovery last year |
| 1:13.2 | of a new species known as Delcibella Kamanchaca. You may have seen stories about this. It was |
| 1:20.8 | covered in some popular press, but the finding was described in a November 2024 paper published in the journal Systematics and Biodiversity by Johanna Weston, Carolina Gonzalez, Ruben Escribano, and Osvaldo Ulloa. |
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