these aren’t Christmas lights this isn’t
a mutant lobster and this fearsome
looking creature is not something you’d
ever find at the end of your fishing
hook these are some of the rarely seen
sea creatures found deep in the ocean in
a world of total darkness using
ultra-sophisticated photographic and
sampling techniques scientists working
for the census of marine life have
inventoried an astonishing diversity of
life beyond the oceans photic zone the
part of the ocean that’s too deep for
light to seep through the census of
marine life is a ten year long
international research program aimed at
cataloging the diversity and
distribution of marine life over 2,000
scientists from 82 countries are
participating in the effort five of the
censuses 14 field projects plumb the
ocean depths beyond the photic zone the
results have been astonishing thus far
over 5,700 species have been identified
thriving in a world that has never known
light they’re a diverse assortment of
creatures exotic cousins two species
that live closer to the ocean surface
such as crabs shrimp worms and jellyfish
they feed mostly on marine snow fine
particles of decaying plants and animals
that drift to the bottom of the ocean
they’re a hardy Bunch these deep sea
dwellers these fish call warns Ruffy can
live to be 100 years old
this fella is known as the Wildcat tube
worm because like the wildcatters of old
texas it drills for oil when it hits a
gusher it dines on chemicals found in
the decomposing oil then there are the
dumbo octopods given that name because
they flop a pair of Lords you’re like
fins to swim like Dumbo the cartoon
elephant add up to 5 feet long they are
among the largest of deep-sea creatures
but not much is known about them the
dumbos are poorly known so we are trying
to figure out how many species there are
and how to tell them apart for example
this Dumbo maybe a species new to
science
the sea cucumber is a distant cousin of
the starfish that uses 15 tentacles to
sweep the oceans to try to us into its
mouth at the end of its meal it changes
shape and flies off to find another
nutritious mud bath by the time the
census of marine life wraps up its
mission next fall the five deep-sea
projects will have embarked on more than
200 expeditions the results of the
census will be announced in London next
October
you
a mutant lobster and this fearsome
looking creature is not something you’d
ever find at the end of your fishing
hook these are some of the rarely seen
sea creatures found deep in the ocean in
a world of total darkness using
ultra-sophisticated photographic and
sampling techniques scientists working
for the census of marine life have
inventoried an astonishing diversity of
life beyond the oceans photic zone the
part of the ocean that’s too deep for
light to seep through the census of
marine life is a ten year long
international research program aimed at
cataloging the diversity and
distribution of marine life over 2,000
scientists from 82 countries are
participating in the effort five of the
censuses 14 field projects plumb the
ocean depths beyond the photic zone the
results have been astonishing thus far
over 5,700 species have been identified
thriving in a world that has never known
light they’re a diverse assortment of
creatures exotic cousins two species
that live closer to the ocean surface
such as crabs shrimp worms and jellyfish
they feed mostly on marine snow fine
particles of decaying plants and animals
that drift to the bottom of the ocean
they’re a hardy Bunch these deep sea
dwellers these fish call warns Ruffy can
live to be 100 years old
this fella is known as the Wildcat tube
worm because like the wildcatters of old
texas it drills for oil when it hits a
gusher it dines on chemicals found in
the decomposing oil then there are the
dumbo octopods given that name because
they flop a pair of Lords you’re like
fins to swim like Dumbo the cartoon
elephant add up to 5 feet long they are
among the largest of deep-sea creatures
but not much is known about them the
dumbos are poorly known so we are trying
to figure out how many species there are
and how to tell them apart for example
this Dumbo maybe a species new to
science
the sea cucumber is a distant cousin of
the starfish that uses 15 tentacles to
sweep the oceans to try to us into its
mouth at the end of its meal it changes
shape and flies off to find another
nutritious mud bath by the time the
census of marine life wraps up its
mission next fall the five deep-sea
projects will have embarked on more than
200 expeditions the results of the
census will be announced in London next
October
you
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