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VIDEO CuriosityStream Ancient Oceans - Weirdest Creatures TV commercial 2019 • Countdown five of the strangest creatures of the ancient seas. All of these aquatic oddities are featured in our original documentary series, 'Ancient Oceans.' Before the age of dinosaurs, there were two earlier major extinctions - this time effecting the oldest creatures of the oceans. Is your favorite on the list? 'Ancient Oceans' is streaming now, only on CuriosityStream. 00:01 ancient oceans weirdest creatures these 00:07 strange jawless but armored fish were 00:10 characterized by their bony shields 00:11 which covered a majority of its body 00:13 this bony skull was actually made up of 00:17 thousands of tiny teeth these fish 00:20 primarily swam along the ocean floor 00:22 sucking up small prey from the seabed 00:24 like a vacuum cleaner 00:25 [Music] 00:29 commonly known as sea lilies because of 00:32 their visual similarity to land stem 00:34 flowers crinoids are actually marine 00:36 animals dating back to the Ordovician 00:38 period these plant like animals could 00:41 attach themselves to the sea floor and 00:43 would wave their feathery mouths to 00:45 gather microscopic particles of food 00:47 from the water dating back to 540 00:52 million years ago these relatively small 00:54 tube like fish may look like eels but in 00:57 reality they were much more bizarre and 00:59 vicious they had teeth like rows of bent 01:04 combs with which to slice and crush its 01:07 food orthis Eris was a not a Lloyd known 01:12 for its elongated cone like shell these 01:15 are ancestors of the modern squid and 01:17 could range in size from mere 01:19 centimetres to more than 14 feet long 01:22 repelling backward with Jets of water 01:25 and regulating its buoyancy with air 01:27 pockets in its shell this predator could 01:29 perfectly position itself to ambush 01:32 unsuspecting prey coming in at the top 01:37 of the food chain during the Devonian 01:38 period Dunkleosteus was one of the 01:41 fiercest marine predators of all time 01:44 this armor-plated fish weighed in at 01:46 nearly a ton its jaws were four times as 01:50 strong as trance horas Rex's and bites 01:52 so powerful it has never been rivaled 01:55 since 01:56 this unstoppable giant roam the Seas 01:58 hunting whatever it liked including its 02:01 own kind watch ancient oceans 02:05 exclusively on curiosity stream - advertisement spot 2019