Threadfin butterfly fish

A blue ringed octopus from the tide pools of Australia. It is only the size of a fist. It flashes fluorescent blue rings when treatened, if needed it also has a powerful poison.


The vampire squid on the other hand, lives way down in thje deep sea.
It's actually neither squid, nor octopus, but it's own species.
It has two long retractible filaments that catch 'marine snow'.

Here are some deep sea creatures together:

vampire squid

deep sea anglers with LED

gulper eel with LED on tail end

This is an not yet finished GULPER EEL.
another deep sea 
creature.


My wool version is around the natural size, head and jaw part about the size of a football, and the body stretches out to almost 6 feet.

Gulper eels hoover at 4000 meters depths in the oceans where there is no light except for what the animals  produce by themselves with photophores.

My wooly eel has a red LED at the tail end.

These are 2 cartoon Deep Sea Angler Fish with the characteristic light, in this case, a 10 mm LED.

They are about the actual size of these
terrifying, but small fish (8", 20 cm).

One is s bluish/greenish ,
the other purplish. 

They began with wet felting on a tennisball, then the parts were needlefelted on. 

They are about 8"
(20 cm) from tail end to teeth.

The battery holder are on the inside of the mouth, with a switch to turn on/off the blue LED.

The vampire squid
is a deep sea creature.
It's about 15 cm head +15 cm cape and tentacles, as is my wool version.

Not really a squid, nor an octopus, it's its own thing. 

It has two retractable filaments with which it catches 'marine snow',
small debris floating around in the deep, dark
ocean.
 

Made at the MakerFaire

Weird and Wonderful! A LEAFY SEA DRAGON

the real thing at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Blue ringed octupus

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Squid

Squid