Mariana Trench
Wildlife in the Mariana Trench is a bit scary so dont have a litte kid see this unless you want them sleeping in your bed for 2 weeks.
Wildlife in the Mariana Trench is a bit scary so dont have a litte kid see this unless you want them sleeping in your bed for 2 weeks.
"The anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes They are bony fish named for their characteristic mode of predation, in which a modified luminescent fin ray acts as a lure for other fish. The luminescence comes from symbiotic bacteria, which are thought to be acquired from seawater, that dwell in and around the sea."
"The first visual record of an adult bigfin squid was in September 1988. The crew of the submersible Nautile encountered a bigfin squid off the coast of northern Brazil, at a depth of 4,735 metres (15,535 ft). In July 1992, the Nautile again encountered these creatures, observing two individuals during a dive off the coast of Ghana, first at 3,010 metres (9,880 ft) depth, and then again at 2,950 metres (9,680 ft). Both were filmed and photographed."
"These bizarre worms rely on whale bones for energy. The Bone-eating worms secrete acid with their “roots” to drill into bone. The red plumes are the female's gills — microscopic, parasitic males live inside the females by the hundreds. How's that for a bone-chilling fact? Attack of the Bone-Eating Zombie Worms!" (TMI I know)
"The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width. The maximum known depth is 10,984 ± 25 metres (36,037 ± 82 ft; 6,006 ± 14 fathoms: 6.825 ± 0.016 mi) at the southern end of a small slot-shaped valley in its floor known as the Challenger Deep. The deepest point of the trench is more than 2 km (1.2 mi) farther from sea level than the peak of Mount Everest."