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Today is Saturday, so we have another vault episode for you.

This is going to be Hunters of the Dark Ocean Part 2 of 4.

Originally published 325, 2025.

Yes, sorry, there was an error in my numbers here. I did not have the final number of the year, but had to be 2025, right? I think that's what I said last time. At any rate, let's get deep, let's get weird. This is a fun one.

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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb.

And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with part two in a series we are calling

Hunters of the Dark Ocean, focusing on predators that operate in deep marine environments.

And folks, full disclosure, if we sound like we're broadcasting from the bottom of the sea

ourselves today, I think Rob and I are both maybe operating at lower power than usual. folks full disclosure if we sound like we're broadcasting from the bottom of the sea ourselves

today i think rob and i are both maybe operating at lower power than usual uh i don't know do

you have a story here rob oh just that i'm i'm battling a cold and as of right now all the cold medicine

is like firing at full throttle oh nice so we timed it just right. Yeah, time to just right. It may

wear off halfway through. And you the listener and get to get to appreciate like a slightly

gravely, um, sexier voice from me as we discuss various slimy creatures that live in the depths.

Yeah. Uh, so I, I was up a lot last night. It was just child care-related,

lack of sleep. But hey, here we are. We're coming to you once again, folks. So, brief recap on

part one of this series. In the last episode, we kicked things off talking about the science news story that

originally inspired us to look at this topic of deep ocean predators. That was a paper published

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