Opah
Warm-bodied hunter of the mid-ocean
Animal Habitats
Deep Sea
Ocean depths beyond sunlight with unique pressure-adapted creatures
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Deep Sea Animals
Pliosaur
Big jaws. Short neck. Ocean boss.
Pyrosome
Glowing tubes that filter the sea
Ocean Perch
Deep, red, and built for the long haul
Atlantic Cod
The barbel-chinned backbone of the Atlantic
Orange Roughy
Seamount elder of the deep
Swordfish
One sword. Whole oceans to roam.
Lancetfish
Sail-fin hunters of the midwater
Nautilus
Ancient shell, living navigator.
Horse Mackerel
Rough-sided sprinters of the sea
Hallucigenia
Cambrian's spiky little evolution clue
Opabinia
Five eyes, one weird proboscis
Shastasaurus
Triassic titan of the open sea
Oilfish
Deep-water predator with a waxy secret
Bass
Bass: many lineages, one big name
Decorator Crab
Wear the reef. Fool the predator.
Stoplight Loosejaw
The deep sea's red-light hunter
Ocean Whitefish
A tilefish by blood, a whitefish by name
Limpet
Cling hard, graze smart, ride the tide.
Ostracod
Tiny shells, huge history
Haikouichthys
A tiny fossil at vertebrates' dawn
Wiwaxia
Spiny armor from the Cambrian seafloor
Helicoprion
Permian seas' spiral-toothed slicer
Giant Siphonophore
Many bodies, one predator.