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Did you know that 4000 metres bellow the ocean there are chemosynthetic bacteria that are specifically evolved to digest the wood of trees that have grown on land?
The wood on the sea floor can come from trees that fall into lakes and end up in the ocean, or wooden ships that have sunken. (Called 'Wood-falls')
The reason why deep marine organisms are able to digest wood despite never seeing the light of day, let alone a plant - since plants are unable to grow in the deep ocean because of a lack of sunlight - is because the ocean is so isolated and scarce of food that when a new food source is suddenly available, organisms rapidly evolve to be able to eat it.
This is called 'Adaptive Radiation', and can also occur on isolated islands.
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rainbow tripod fish larva (bathypterois grallator) | source
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Scientists estimate the Greenland shark lives at least 250 years and can potentially live for centuries. Researchers estimate that some individuals may exceed over 500 years in age, making them among the oldest known vertebrates on Earth.
One theory to explain this long lifespan is that the Greenland shark has a very slow metabolism, an adaptation to the deep, cold waters it inhabits. A NOAA remotely operated vehicle doing a dive off New England encountered a Greenland shark at a depth of 783 meters, but these sharks are known to dive as deep as 2,200 meters. They’re also the only shark that can withstand the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean year-round.
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Snipe eel is the perfect name for that thing
#snipe eel#snipe#eels#aquarium#marine biology#fish#oceanposting#deep sea#sea creatures#ocean#sea life#marine life#marine biology memes#fishblr#eel
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The wonderful Glass Octopus. Living at depths of around 3000 ft and only being about a foot long, these strange little creatures are rarely seen by scientists.
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This special boy was discovered 5 miles under the ocean and he looks like he's having the time of his life
#snailfish#val hal hal#artists on tumblr#deep sea#creature#sea creatures#marine life#sea life#underwater#ocean
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gage beasley deep sea plushies
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Pictured: pelagic thresher shark, orca, porbeagle shark, blue shark, snailfish, Greenland shark, rockfish, bigfin squid, mako shark, and basket star
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i love you i want to see you in real life (the swuid)
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Every time I see a pic of the tripod fish I just wanna put lil shoes on them
#tripod fish#fish#fishblr#fish art#deep sea#sea life#aquatic life#marine life#marine biology#my art#pencil watercolour and a digital bg!
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Enough depressurized blobfish. I'm here to spread living blobfish propaganda.
Look at them. Gorgeous. Wonderful. Living comfortably at depths to over 1,200 meters in the ocean. Be nice to them.
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Osedax
Osedax, also known as boneworms, zombie worms or 'the bone-eating snot flower', is a type of marine polychaete worm that like to use their plant-like roots to bore into the bones of whale carcasses.
They don't have a mouth or a stomach so they technically don't eat bones directly. Instead they will dessolve the bone with acid and rely chemosynthetic bacteria to digest the lipid in the bone and convert it into nutritients for the boneworm to eat and in return the bacteria get food and protection from predetors.
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baby tripod fish (bathypterois grallator) | source
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The Venus girdle (Cestum veneris) is a comb jelly in the family Cestidae. The colorless species are transparent when suspended in water, except for their iridescent rows of comb plates. In other words, they majestic as fuck. Love to sea it 🌊
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