strange spots: The Trench!

Now this is a very strange spot.. the Mariana Trench. Few have ventured to it's depths, as it's the deepest part of the world's ocean. It is located in the Western Pacific Ocean to the east of the Mariana Islands. It length is about1,580 feet an width about 43 miles across. It's depth is 6.85 miles deep! The pressure at the bottom is 15,750 psi and it's about 34 to 39 degrees Fahrenheit. There is a great deal of material you can read by googling the trench, but for this blog, I thought creatures of the deep would be rather fun.. so here we go!

the xenophyophores found in great masses on the bottom (single cell animal up to 4 inches)

Goblin Shark- these guys are up to 13 feet and near 500 lbs!

Hatchetfish-they can produce their own light and live up to 4000 feet deep!

Footballfish has it's our fishing lure!

Frilled Shark has 300 teeth and has a 3 1/2 year pregnancy!

Dumbo Octopus and lives in depths up to 11,000 feet deep!

Fanfin Seadevil- males fuse their bodies to the females to mate and share the same blood stream!

Dragon Fish- produce their own flashing lights but have solid black stomachs to hide self lighting dinners!

Telescope Octopus-has telescope eyes on top of long moveable stocks!

Barreleye- found at 2000 ft with a transparent head. green lenses above eyes filter out the little bit of sunlight to focus on the light of it's prey.

Viperfish-found at 5000 feet deep and has teeth too long for it's mouth!

Fangtooth- has the largest teeth of all fish (with respect to body size) in the ocean but is only 6 inches inches long.

Hirondellea Gigas- lives at up to 30,000 deep. they eat tree and plant debris that has fallen to the bottom of the ocean.

Ping-Pong Tree Sponge- found at 9,000 feet deep. they are a carnivorous sponges that uses tiny hair hooks to snag prey, then slowly the sponge cells move toward the prey and digest it!