Deep-Sea Funnies

STUDENT SHEET 2a

Deep-sea funnies

Giant tube worm Hagfish

Size 240cm Size 50cm Max. depth 1800m Max. depth 1800m Weird rating 8/10: Giant tube Weird rating 8/10: Can turn a large worms do not have bucket of water into eyes, mouth, stomach slime in seconds. or legs. Predator level Predator level

Eats sugars from bacteria Eats dead sperm whales Eaten by vent shrimp, yeti crab and squid Eaten by sixgill shark

Giant squid Sixgill shark

Size 1300cm Size 490cm Max. depth 1000m Max. depth 1850m Weird rating 7/10: Their eyes can be Weird rating 5/10: This deepest 25cm across, the size shark in the world has of a beach ball. translucent eyelids.

Predator level Predator level

Eats ghost shark, six gill Eats hagfish shark Eaten by orca (not included) Eaten by sperm whale

Japanese spider crab Dumbo octopus

Size 380cm Size 30cm Max. depth 600m Max. depth 7000m Weird rating 8/10: Truly frightening, Weird rating 6/10: They look like a with legs that stretch cartoon elephant. 1.6 meters.

Predator level Predator level

Eats mussels, sea pigs Eats amphipods, isopods Eaten by large octopus (not Eaten by sperm whale included)

Scaly foot gastropod Angler fish

Size 4cm Size 15cm Max. depth 2800m Max. depth 4500m Weird rating 6/10: This small snail Weird rating 9/10: When mating, makes armour plating the smaller male fuses from iron in the to the female’s body. seawater. Predator level Predator level

Eats sugars from bacteria Eats amphipod, dragon Eaten by yeti crab fish Eaten by giant squid

Sea pig Vent bacteria

Size 20cm Size 0.0001cm Max. depth 5000m Max. depth 4800m Weird rating 5/10: The sea pig is the Weird rating 5/10: They can live at only sea cucumber to temperatures of over have ‘legs’. 100°C (212°F).

Predator level Predator level

Eats marine snow Eats yeti crab, amphipod, Eaten by giant isopod, spider scaly foot gastropod crab

Ghost shark Amphipod

Size 150cm Size 34cm Max. depth 2600m Max. depth 7700m Weird rating 4/10: Ghost sharks Weird rating 2/10: They can be have not changed cannibals but are much in the past 340 a bit like deep sea million years. shrimps. Predator level Predator level

Eats vent shrimp, Eats marine snow amphipod Eaten by dumbo octopus, Eaten by six gill shark dragonfish

Sperm whale Yeti crab

Size 1200cm Size 15cm Max. depth 2250m Max. depth 2200m Weird rating 4/10: The sperm Weird rating 8/10: They look like whale’s teeth weigh yetis, and garden nearly 1kg each. bacteria on their hairy claws. Predator level Predator level

Eats giant squid, dumbo Eats sugars from bacteria octopus Eaten by ghost shark Eaten by orca (not included)

Dragon fish Marine snow

Size 15cm Size 0.1cm Max. depth 1500m Max. depth 10994m Weird rating 6/10: Although small, Weird rating 2/10: Tiny dead they have huge animals and algae teeth and a luminous look like snow when barble. falling through water. Predator level Predator level

Eats amphipod, isopod, Eaten by amphipod, hagfish, small fish vampire squid, sea Eaten by angler fish pig, giant isopod

Vampire squid Giant ispod

Size 15cm Size 75cm Max. depth 1200m Max. depth 2140m Weird rating 7/10: Can excude Weird rating 7/10: These are giant flashing goo to ward underwater roly polys off predators. or woodlice.

Predator level Predator level

Eats marine snow, Eats marine snow amphipod Eaten by ghost shark, six gill Eaten by sixgill shark, giant squid shark