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Below the mesopelagic zone it is pitch dark. This is the midnight (or bathypelagic zone), extending from 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) to the bottom deep-water benthic zone. If the water is exceptionally deep, the pelagic zone below 4,000 metres (13,123 ft) is sometimes called the lower midnight (or abyssopelagic zone). Temperatures in this zone ...
Due to low mixing rates between the above seawater and the brine water, brine-pool water becomes anoxic within the first ten centimeters or so. [41] While there are large variations in the geochemical composition of individual pools, [ 41 ] as well as extreme chemical stratification within the same pool, [ 42 ] conserved chemical trends are ...
When humans come to pick up the fish, the Berberoka releases all the water and eats them as they struggle to stay afloat. [1] Despite all their powers, these water ogres have a morbid, ironic fear of crabs. They have the ability to suck up all the water in a swamp or lake. Also, many elderly people believed that they use water to attack their ...
Sculpins of this subfamily mostly live in deep water, below 170 m (560 ft). [2] There are 24 known species in seven genera. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These include, for instance, Abyssocottus korotneffi and Cottinella boulengeri which are among the deepest-living freshwater fish . [ 5 ]
The Biogeography of Deep-Water Chemosynthetic Ecosystems is a field project of the Census of Marine Life programme (CoML). The main aim of ChEss is to determine the biogeography of deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystems at a global scale and to understand the processes driving these ecosystems.
In zoology, deep-sea gigantism or abyssal gigantism is the tendency for species of deep-sea dwelling animals to be larger than their shallower-water relatives across a large taxonomic range. Proposed explanations for this type of gigantism include necessary adaptation to colder temperature, food scarcity, reduced predation pressure and ...
The oldest version of the Aspidochelone legend is found in the Physiologus (2nd century AD) : [1]. There is a monster in the sea which in Greek is called aspidochelone, in Latin "asp-turtle"; it is a great whale, that has what appear to be beaches on its hide, like those from the sea-shore.
It prefers water temperatures that remain less than 5 °C (41 °F). [3] In lakes in the southern part of its range, it has been observed only in deep water where the water temperature remains cold year round. [3] The deepwater sculpin feeds primarily on small crustaceans [2] Mysis diluviana and Diporeia. [3] They will also take chironomid larvae.