Deep Sea Floor Creatures

See how these deep sea denizens make the most of their deep dark home.

Deep sea floor creatures.

The term deep sea creature refers to organisms that live below the photic zone of the ocean. Most creatures have to depend on food floating down from above. 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. 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.

Deep sea creatures photos adaptation is the name of the game when you live thousands of feet below the water s surface. 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. These deep sea creatures have made the lowest parts of the world their home surviving thousands of meters below the surface. In most of the world the ocean floor is very deep averaging 3 790 meters 12 430 ft in depth.

Victoria vásquez at pacific shark research center ki. 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. While this bottom feeder may look perpetually bored and bummed out they actually keep pretty busy on the ocean floor. Nearly half of the world s sea floors are over 3 000 meters 9 800 ft deep.

Down in those environments there are all kinds of hazards and complications. These creatures live in very demanding environments. It is said that the transparent teeth of this fish are stronger than that of a. These scavengers are vital to the deep sea habitat as they help clean up the ocean floor.

This elusive ocean floor dweller is commonly referred to as a ghost shark. 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.