In Creatures Under the Deep Sea it talks about all kinds of animals from small things like little Octopuses called dumbo to huge things like a Vampire Squid. Vampire squids curl up into a ball when feeling scared or under pressured. The scientific name of this squid is Cephalopod.This creature also has glowing eyes and tentacles. This proves that life can thrive if their is just a little bit of light. The cute little Dumbo Octopus it's called is a little 8 armed creature. The Dumbo Octopus is an animal that lives on the ocean floor which is 9,800 to 13,000 feet deep. They are small creatures, around 8 inches tall. They feed off of worms and other underwater insects. We have only discovered five percent of the ocean, but we have still
In the article “What’s at the Bottom of the Ocean?” authored by Samantha Larson, it states that there is more to see on the ocean floor than meets the eye. David Gruber, the main oceanographer in the ocean exploration team, has discovered hundreds of unknown species and has even helped with breakthroughs in medical research. “The deep sea is a beautiful and foreign place, with many different creatures and geological structures,” Gruber expressed. When he was traveling underwater in the South Pacific, he witnessed tens of thousands of tiny flashlight fish swimming in 20 foot waters. He also discovered that these flashlight fish use biofluorescence to communicate with each other by absorbing blue light and turning
Have you ever gone swimming in the ocean? Have you ever thought of going under the water? Have you ever thought of the big sea monsters way at the bottom? The kraken is a huge monster that has been said to reside at the floor of the ocean.The Kraken is a giant squid that lives under the sea, when it eats it has a different appearance than when it attacks and is so powerful that it can pull down ships. The kraken has suction cups at the bottom of its tentacles.
It goes no deeper than 100 feet. They hunt for food close to them so them so they don’t have to enter cold water. They like to explore and play around. They live in tall sea plants and stay near the ocean floor.
Scientist in order to measure the depth of the ocean use “Bomb Sounding” this is where they throw TNT into trenches and from the echo that it gives the scientist than approximate its depth. “Recent expeditions such as the HADES project in the Pacific suggest that fish are not found below 27,560 feet. But the hadal zone extends to 36,000 feet”, (Cock-Starkey 9). The development of the “DeepSea Challenger” allowed the ability for scientist to travel down the trench to collect rocks, sediments,and biological samples. Scientist from Scripps Institute Oceanography, University of Hawai’i, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory all joined in into the DeepSea Challenger setting their research on marine biology, microbiology, astrobiology, marine geology and geophysics. Living in the deepest part of ocean surfaced thoughts of marine life being non-existent because of the lethal conditions it has , but past findings of marine life as deep as 27,560 feet shook scientist. Marine adaptation has grown because of the frequent findings of marine life such as the following: Frilled Shark (5,000 ft), Giant Spider Crab (estimate 1,000 ft), Atlantic Wolffish Pair (1,600 ft), Fangtooth Fish (16,500 ft), Six-Gill Shark (8,200 ft) and etc. All these deep sea creatures have adapted to low oxygen levels and the lightless depth of the
Everyone might have once imagined dark environments and scary creatures which live in the deep sea. These childlike dreams are visualized in the popular novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. In the novel, the main character, Pierre Aronnax, searches for a mysterious sea monster while fighting with scary undersea creatures. Although many undersea creatures have been depicted in the novel, one of the striking deep sea creatures would be a giant octopus. This octopus is depicted as a scary creatures that threatens the main character. Many people might think the creatures are fake, but the giant octopus exists, which is also well known by today’s scientists.
have Previously watched many ocean documentaries. One I found particularly interesting was David Attenburgs bio luminescent documentary, (I'll try to provide a link to it) This one, is also by him and I'm seeing some repeated scenes. In our course material it wasn't mentioned much, as far as the textbook goes. The creatures of the deep have large eyes and strong large jaws. I was surprised to hear how large the hairy angler was, I had always assumed angler fish where small, about the size of a prawn. I was surprised at there being walking sea urchins, they look very strange. The mushroom coral looks to be a coral that could be used to repopulate the planet in case the coral there went extinct. I find it pretty amazing that there are such large
What animals have we yet to find in the ocean? In Deep ocean mysteries and wonders by David Gallo, we talk about animals wonders and other facts. We start off by talking about how people think they know the earth but don't. We have explored most of the earth's surface but what about the ocean. We have only explored 5% of the ocean. There is still 95% left, this leaves infinite possibilities. We could find a cure for cancer or find a fish that has the most succulent meat known to man. So far we have found many new animals and plants. One, in particular, is the vampire squid or vampyroteuthids. Vampyroteuthis means squid from hell. It is the last of its kind. It uses little finger-like objects called serious that carry its food to its mouth.
Corals, sea anemones, sea urchins, molluscs, crustaceans and worms are all included in the large, diverse group we call marine invertebrates. They are classed as an invertebrate as they all share one common key feature; they do not have a backbone. Invertebrates seem like a simple life form but they are truly beautiful, interesting and complex creatures that roam our oceans. But which is the most interesting invertebrate? Would it be Porifera, Cnidaria, Bryozoans, Vermiforms, Mollusca, Crustacea, Echinodermata or Chordata? With marine invertebrates making up around 97% of the worlds described species it is open for a large debate (Arkive n.d).
Squids are within the class cephalopods. They are known for representing the top of the food chain for the large group of soft-bodied animals known as Molluscs as they are extremely fast moving predators. Their various adaptations have allowed them to thrive in the ocean.
A mosaic jellyfish floats serenely in the waters of the Coral Sea, about 100 nautical miles from Cairns, Australia. Jellyfish are ubiquitous in the Earth’s oceans. They can thrive in warm water and cold, along coastlines or out in the deep. Their bodies are about 95 percent water. And though they have no brains, jellyfish have somehow been smart enough to survive for over 500 million
Squids, an animal that lives in water, knowns as cephalopods. It also has a scientific name; Teuthida. Squids are capable of jet propulsion, walking, swimming and sometimes flying… Yes, flying! Jet propulsion! It has another definition when it comes to an animal that lives in water but it’s original physical definition is the jet of matter passed by the thrust produced in the opposite direction, to direction of movement. Furthermore, Newton’s third law states that the motion of body is propelled in the other direction of the jet. Jet propulsion occurs when the squid wants to speed up, their fins (Fig.1) propel themselves in water and then water gets in mantle cavity and above the gills, then reaches an opening by the head. The mantle cavity’s
Bathypelagic organisms are mostly black, red or transparent, rendering them essentially invisible in the weak biological light. Because they do not go anywhere, streamlining has either not evolved or has disappeared.
Architeuthis dux, better known as the giant squid has been around for years. During that time, scientists studied the predator and photographed the giant creature that lived in the deep waters of the ocean. Yet, there is an even larger predator. The Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni: The Colossal squid is longest creature of the deep. It weighs over 1000 pounds, and has shorter tentacles (“Meet” 71) Purely by accident, a colossal squid measuring 14 feet was netted by a fisherman in 2007. Many years prior to this, a squid measuring “15 meters....and stretched like rubber bands [so] the actual size might have been smaller” (McConvey 50) was given to Rev. Moses Harvey in 1873. Never-the-less, because of this captured species, scientists were able to examine the creature and in the process of studying the squid they hoped to understand how the species survives in it’s habitat and depths of the oceans it lives in.
The deep sea is a dark and mysterious place. So little is known about the deep sea.
Third, the bathypelagic zone an area in the ocean that has no lights in site. Animals such as vampire squids, deep sea anglerfish, mollusks, snake dragon fish and more are familiar to this particular area. The vampire squid is a creature that has unusual traits they eyes that are the color red or blue. Scientist refer to this creature as Vampyroteuthis infernalis. Now, another deep sea creature that is know from a cartoon by the name of Finding Nemo. The deep sea anglerfish is a funny looking animal with a light blob in the front of it. The fish uses his light blob to attract in his prey.