- Birds: Penguins, puffins, albatrosses, terns, curlews, pelicans, herons and egrets.
- Marine mammals: Sea otters, manatees and dugongs.
- Fish: Salmon, cod, halibut, marlin, tuna, ladyfish, herring and sardines.
- Pinnipeds: Seals, fur seals, walruses and sea lions.
What animals live deep in the Pacific Ocean?
- 18 Grenadiers.
- 19 Frilled Shark. ...
- 20 Sea Toad. ...
- 21 Goblin Shark. ...
- 22 Robust Clubhook Squid. ...
- 23 Vampire Squid. ...
- 24 Japanese Spider Crab. ...
What types of plants and animals live in the Pacific Ocean?
Some notable species include the blue whale, killer whale, humpback whale and bottlenose dolphin . The Pacific Ocean is also home to several unique marine mammal groups as well. Dugongs feed on seagrasses in the western Pacific. Sea otters forage for clams and sea urchins in the eastern Pacific.
How many organisms live in the Pacific Ocean?
There are 228,450 known species in the ocean — and as many as 2 million more that remain a total mystery.
What is the scariest creature in the ocean?
- The Goblin Shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) ...
- The Proboscis Worm (Parborlasia corrugatus) ...
- Zombie Worms (Osedax roseus) ...
- Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa) ...
- The Sloane's viperfish (Chauliodus sloani) ...
- Giant isopods (Bathynomus giganteus) ...
- Frilled Shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus)
What's the biggest sea creature in the world?
The Antarctic blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus ssp. Intermedia) is the biggest animal on the planet, weighing up to 400,000 pounds (approximately 33 elephants) and reaching up to 98 feet in length.
Is coral a plant or animal?
Though coral may look like a colorful plant growing from roots in the seafloor, it is actually an animal . Corals are known as colonial organisms, because many individual creatures live and grow while connected to each other. They are also dependent on one another for survival.
What are the 4 major threats to ocean life?
- Ocean noise. ...
- Ship strikes. ...
- Climate change. ...
- Entanglement in fishing gear. ...
- Plastics and ocean debris.
What are 5 animals that live in the Pacific ocean?
- Penguins. An African penguin in South Africa. ...
- Dugong. The dugong feeds primarily on sea grass. ...
- Killer whale. A killer whale on the west coast of Canada. ...
- Humpback whale. A humpback whale calf. ...
- Fur seal. ...
- Elephant seal. ...
- Manta ray. ...
- Sea otter.
Which ocean has the most marine life?
There are 400 known fish species living in Arctic seas and adjacent waters, most living on or near the bottom. So, based on global fisheries and the overall biodiversity of coral reef ecosystems, the Pacific Ocean wins for most marine life.
What percent of life is in the ocean?
Scientists now estimate that 80 percent of Earth's species live on land, 15 percent in the ocean, and the remaining 5 percent in freshwater.
Which is the largest carnivore on land?
The largest terrestrial carnivore is the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) . Adult males typically weigh 400–600 kg (880–1,320 lb), and have a nose-to-tail length of 2.4–2.6 m (7 ft 10 in–8 ft 6 in).
What is the creepiest thing on earth?
- Island of the Dolls – Mexico City, Mexico.
- Aokigahara – Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
- Chernobyl – Chernobyl, Ukraine.
- The Stanley Hotel – Colorado, United States.
- Capuchin Catacombs – Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
- Bran Castle – Bran, Romania.
- The North Yungas Road – Bolivia.
What is the scariest creature in the world?
- 1. Aye Aye Lemus. This thing looks like Golem from Lord of the Rings. ...
- Dolomedes triton, the fish eating spider. Wikipedia These suckers are on every continent in the world. ...
- Amblypygi. ...
- Sarcastic Fringehead. ...
- Wolftrap Anglerfish. ...
- Santino the chimp. ...
- Atretochoana eiselti.
What is the rarest sea creature?
The vaquita is the world's rarest sea mammal and one of the most endangered animals in the world.
What's the biggest thing on Earth?
Sequoia trees . Sequoia trees are the biggest living things on this planet (by volume). They can grow up to 275 feet tall and 26 feet in diameter.
