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The deepest realm of all, found in the narrow, crushing trenches of the underworld.
What is the Hadalpelagic Zone? (Hadal Zone)
What challenge is it facing?
Scientists discovered an animal 30m below the surface. This creature has a jiggly body that can be easily moved.
What is Extremely Water Pressure?
What do they have in common?
Deep Sea Angler fish, vampire squid, and Firefly Squid.
What is Bioluminescence?
The most famous deep sea animal. Known for luring it’s prey with bioluminescence like a fishing rod.
What is the Angler fish?
A chemical reaction that produces light.
The dim, middle layer where sunlight begins to fade into darkness.
What is the Mesopelagic Zone? (Twilight Zone)
What challenge is it facing?
The Black Dragonfish not only has a faint red light under it’s eye, but it also carries a bioluminescent rod that hangs from it’s chin.
What is Absence of Sunlight?
What do they have in common?
Barreleye, Colossal Squid, and the Elephant Fish.
Crowned as the world’s ugliest animal, this animal survives water pressure because of their jiggly bodies that can stand water pressure.
What is the Blobfish?
The longest animal in the world (reaching to 150!)
What is the Giant Siphonophore?
The brightly lit, sun-warmed upper layer of the sea where photosynthesis occurs and most marine life swims.
What is the Epipelagic? (Sunlight Zone)
What challenge is it facing?
The Black Swallower’s stomach can expand 4x its size and carries food 10x its mass. This is great for this challenge.
What do they have in common?
Deep-Sea Octopus, Hadal Snailfish, and Brittle Star.
What is Extreme Flexibility?
This creatures mouth makes of 1/4 of its body length and mass. That way, it can swallow larger prey, and store food.
What is the Pelican/Gulper Eel?
The Deepest known point of the Ocean.
What is the Challenger Deep?
The deep, near-freezing plain of the seafloor characterized by extreme pressure and absolute darkness.
What is the Abyssopelagic Zone? (Abyssal Zone)
What challenge is it facing?
The Greenland shark is one of the longest living sea animals; surviving to around 400 years. This is because it has the ability to slow down it’s metabolism in order to preserve energy in the 28˚F (-2˚C) waters of Greenland.
What is Cold Temperatures?
What do they have in common?
Pygmy Seahorse, Fangtooth, and Stoplight Loosejaw.
This creature has a false pair of eyes. Their actual eyes are green in color, and move at a 90˚.
What is the Barreleye Fish?
The color wave that barely reaches below 70m.
What is Red Light?
A region of perpetual darkness and freezing cold where bioluminescent creatures must make their own light.
What is the Bathypelagic Zone? (Midnight Zone)
What challenge is it facing?
A lot of animals — like Giant Tube Worms find a way to create a relationship with hydrothermal vents. Animals like Yeti Crabs use a bacteria that turns the toxic sulfur into food.
What is toxic environments?
What do they have in common?
Greenland Sharks, Giant Isopods, and Bigfin Squid.
Terrifying, yet small. This creature uses red lights to camouflage its from prey to sneak up on it.
What is the Stoplight Loosejaw?
Unlike the cold waters around it, this underwater volcano shoot out hot mineral rich water that can get to 750˚F.