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- What lives deep underwater?
- What is the largest under water animal?
- What is the deepest living sea creature?
- How do fish survive in Mariana Trench?
- What lives in the Mariana Trench?
- What was the largest water dinosaur?
- What is the biggest thing in the sea?
- How big are whale sharks?
- What is the depth of Mariana Trench?
- What fish swims deepest?
- What's the deepest fish found?
- What do Mariana Snailfish eat?
- How do they live under such crushing pressure?
- Do deep sea fish explode when brought to the surface?
- Are there monsters in the Mariana Trench?
- Does Megalodon live in the Mariana Trench?
- Is there anything deeper than Mariana Trench?
What lives deep underwater?
In 2018, scientists officially described a snailfish (Pseudoliparis swirei) at 27,000 feet below sea level, the deepest living fish ever found.
What is the largest under water animal?
Well the largest animal in the ocean isn't a fish at all but a whale. The blue whale is not only the biggest animal in the ocean, but it's also the biggest animal in the world.
What is the deepest living sea creature?
At the upper edges of the trench, below 21,000 feet, we found decapod shrimp, supergiant amphipods (swimming crustaceans), and small pink snailfish. This newly discovered species of snailfish that lives to near 27,000 feet (8,200 meters), is now the world's deepest living fish.
How do fish survive in Mariana Trench?
Fishes survive underwater pressure as they do not breathe through lungs. Therefore, they do not have air pockets that can be compressed due to the high pressures. ... At that depth, the pressure is intense, but that's nothing compared to the pressure at deeper depths.
What lives in the Mariana Trench?
The organisms discovered in the Mariana Trench include bacteria, crustaceans, sea cucumbers, octopuses and fishes. In 2014, the deepest living fish, at the depth of 8000 meters, Mariana snailfish was discovered near Guam.
What was the largest water dinosaur?
Ichthyosaurs. The largest ichthyosaur was Shonisaurus sikanniensis at ~21 metres (70 ft) in length. This would make it the largest extinct marine animal.
What is the biggest thing in the sea?
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is undoubtedly the biggest creature in the sea, and is in fact the largest animal to have ever lived on plant earth – a fully-grown blue whale is double the size of the largest land-dwelling dinosaur that ever lived.
How big are whale sharks?
They're not whales, but the world's largest fish
These huge creatures can grow up to 39 feet long. But despite their size, whale sharks are often referred to as "gentle giants."
What is the depth of Mariana Trench?
Then explain to students that the Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean and the deepest location on Earth. It is 11,034 meters (36,201 feet) deep, which is almost 7 miles.
What fish swims deepest?
The Mariana snailfish (Pseudoliparis swirei) – which featured on episode two of the BBC's Blue Planet II – is officially the deepest fish in the ocean, thriving at depths of up to about 8,000 meters (26,200 feet) along the Mariana Trench near Guam.
What's the deepest fish found?
A cousin of the Atacama snailfish, the Marianas snailfish, is the deepest-dwelling fish ever discovered, inhabiting depths below 26,600 ft. Because their habitat is in the deepest trenches of the ocean, Atacama snailfish live without the fear of predation; five miles is an awfully deep dive for a meal.
What do Mariana Snailfish eat?
Specifically, these Mariana snailfish eat tiny crustaceans that are trapped in the trenches.
How do they live under such crushing pressure?
Generally the deep sea organisms have the same pressure as that of their surrounding water. ... These organisms also possess large lungs, air sacs which helps in maintaining their internal pressure of the body so as to overcome the external pressure this way the equilibrium is maintained and survival also maintained.
Do deep sea fish explode when brought to the surface?
The gas-filled swim bladder of deep sea fish is under so much pressure in the deep sea that when brought to the surface too rapidly, and therefore relieving the enormous pressure, it explodes.
Are there monsters in the Mariana Trench?
Despite its immense distance from everywhere else, life seems to be abundant in the Trench. Recent expeditions have found myriad creatures living out their lives at the bottom of the sea-floor. Xenophyophores, amphipods, and holothurians (not the names of alien species, I promise) all call the trench home.
Does Megalodon live in the Mariana Trench?
According to website Exemplore: “While it may be true that Megalodon lives in the upper part of the water column over the Mariana Trench, it probably has no reason to hide in its depths. ... However, scientists have dismissed this idea and state that it is extremely unlikely that the megalodon still lives.
Is there anything deeper than Mariana Trench?
The deepest place in the Atlantic is in the Puerto Rico Trench, a place called Brownson Deep at 8,378m. The expedition also confirmed the second deepest location in the Pacific, behind the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. This runner-up is the Horizon Deep in the Tonga Trench with a depth of 10,816m.
