Ocean Floor Sea Creatures

The term deep sea creature refers to organisms that live below the photic zone of the ocean.

Ocean floor sea creatures. While this bottom feeder may look perpetually bored and bummed out they actually keep pretty busy on the ocean floor. Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet. In real life many sea creatures are adorable. Scientists have brought back to life microbes found in 100 million year old sediment from deep beneath the ocean floor.

Seventy percent of the earth s surface is below the ocean yet 95 percent of it remains unexplored to the human eye. In most of the world the ocean floor is very deep averaging 3 790 meters 12 430 ft in depth. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. These creatures live in very demanding environments.

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. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. The extra terrestrial much like space there are. Nearly half of the world s sea floors are over 3 000 meters 9 800 ft deep.

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. Deep sea explorers discovered creatures at the bottom of the ocean feasting on decaying whales a shark was swallowed whole by a large fish during a rarely seen deep sea feeding frenzy business. 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.

See how these deep sea denizens make the most of their deep dark home. The creatures at the bottom of the ocean 01 06.