Deep Ocean Floor Creatures

Although there are millions of different species of animals on the planet perhaps the scariest of all are the creatures who live on the ocean floor.

Deep ocean floor creatures.

These creatures must survive in extremely harsh conditions such as hundreds of bars of pressure small amounts of oxygen very little food no sunlight and constant extreme cold. Most creatures have to depend on food floating down from above. These scavengers are vital to the deep sea habitat as they help clean up the ocean floor. While this bottom feeder may look perpetually bored and bummed out they actually keep pretty busy on the ocean floor.

Contrary to popular belief most of the sea floor known as the open ocean is not really a habitat for animals just a place they pass by on the way to somewhere else. It is said that the transparent teeth of this fish are stronger than that of a. New species are discovered in the ocean each year by marine biologists and other ocean scientists. Many of these newly discovered species live deep on the ocean floor in unique habitats that depend on plate movement underwater volcanoes and cold water seeps.

The deep sea dragonfish is another deep sea creature that uses its oversized fang like teeth to grab prey in the deep dark environs of its habitat. The term deep sea creature refers to organisms that live below the photic zone of the ocean. Nearly half of the world s sea floors are over 3 000 meters 9 800 ft deep. With oversized teeth and a hideous face the dragonfish is an assassin of the unfathomable deep.

Although it s a fish it has no scales but instead a slippery slimy skin that resembles an eel s. In most of the world the ocean floor is very deep averaging 3 790 meters 12 430 ft in depth. Leafy sea dragon phycodurus eques with a multitude of yellowish or greenish appendages that allow it to camouflage itself as seaweed this 14 inch deep sea creature closely related to sea horses. Deep sea creatures photos adaptation is the name of the game when you live thousands of feet below the water s surface.

These creatures live in very demanding environments. These deep sea creatures have made the lowest parts of the world their home surviving thousands of meters below the surface. Deep ocean hydrothermal vent ecosystems were discovered in 1977. The blob sculpin the deep water equivalent of grumpy cat is a miserable looking fish that lives in very deep water in the both the north pacific and bering sea.

Be wowed by incredible creatures in this journey through a mysterious part of our blue planet with this 10 hour loop.