DEEP SEA CREATURES

CONTENTS

• Pg 2-4Frilled Shark.
• Pg 5 And 6 Box Jelly.
• Pg 7 And 8 Giant Squid.

INTRODUCTION

Have you ever been to a place so scary yet so interesting? I haven't but I've read about it. There are so many different and scary creatures in the depth of the sea.

Frilled Shark!

A Frilled Shark is the scariest deep sea creature.It reaches a length of 6.6 feet and has a dark brown eel-like body with the dorsal pelvic and anal fins placed far back. The long extremely flexible jaws enable it to swallow prey whole while its many rows of small needle -like teeth make it difficult for the prey to escape .

Rather uncommon, the frilled shark has been recorded from a number of widely scattered locations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In the eastern Atlantic, it occurs off northern Norway, northern Scotland, and western Ireland, from France to Morocco including Madeira, and off Mauritania.

In the central Atlantic, it has been caught at several locations along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, from north of the Azores to the Rio Grande Rise off southern Brazil, as well as over the Vavilov Ridge off West Africa. In the western Atlantic, it has been reported from waters off New England, Georgia, and Suriname.In the western Pacific, it is known from southeastern Honshu, Japan, to Taiwan, off New South Wales and Tasmania in Australia, and around New Zealand. In the central and eastern Pacific, it has been found off Hawaii, California, and northern Chile.The frilled sharks off southern Africa were described as a different species, . africana, in 2009.o

BOX JELLYFISH!

The Box Jellyfish is one of the deadliest creature in on tentacle full of Poison it can kill up to 50 people! And it has 60 tentacles! People can die in about 3 minutes from it!Their venom is considered to be among the most deadly in the world, containing toxins that attack the heart, nervous system, and skin cells. It is so overpoweringly painful, human victims have been known to go into shock and drown or die of heart failure before even reaching shore. Survivors can experience considerable pain for weeks and often have significant scarring where the tentacles made contact.

Box jellies, also called sea wasps and marine stingers, live primarily in coastal waters off Northern Australia and throughout the Indo-Pacific. They are pale blue and transparent in color and get their name from the cube-like shape of their bell. Up to 15 tentacles grow from each corner of the bell and can reach 10 feet (3 meters) in length. Each tentacle has about 5,000 stinging cells, which are triggered not by touch but by the presence of a chemical on the outer layer of its prey.

GIANT SQUID!

The Giant Squid is one of the biggest deep sea creature. The Giant squid grows around 43 ft. From the posterior fins to the tip of the long tentacles is 46ft. The mantle is about 6.6 long. The Giant Squids have been seen all over the world but mostly around Canada, America, and Europe. They feed on deep sea fish and other species of Squids.

The only known predators of adult giant squid are sperm whales, but pilot whales may also feed on them. Juveniles are preyed on by deep-sea sharks and other fish. Because sperm whales are skilled at locating giant squid, scientists have tried to observe them to study the squid.

CONCLUSION

Man those are some scary creatures. Now do you want to go down to the deep sea? Just kidding but still go learn more and tell the world what you might figure out.

ALL MY SOURCES

• Frilled Shark info Wikipedia.
• Box Jellyfish info deepseacreatures.org. And nationalgeographic.com
• Giant Squid info Wikipedia.