Facts About Animals In The Ocean
According to the Ocean Service man has explored less than five per cent of Earths oceans.
Facts about animals in the ocean. The the largest animal on our planet everlarger than the greatest dinosaurs the blue whale still lives in the ocean and its heart is the size of a Volkswagen. Seabirds get their primary source of food from the ocean and are specially adapted to live and hunt near water. I wanted the kids to learn a few things about how animals are adapted to life in the ocean.
Scientists estimate that about one million species of animals live in the ocean. Jellyfish small fish zooplankton and algae. Ocean Sunfish by Per-Ola Norman via CC0 9.
Around 70 of the planets surface is covered by oceans. The study of animals and other elements of marine biology dates back to Aristotle who lived from 384 to 322 BC. The most common vertebrate an animal with a backbone on Earth is the bristlemouth a tiny ocean fish that glows in the dark and has needlelike fangs.
Ocean animals can include marine mammals birds fish cephalopods corals sharks and reptiles. In this lesson you will learn about some of the many amazing animals that live in the worlds oceans. The evolutionary paths of these complicated animals finds them crawling out of the prehistoric ocean onto dry land as cold-bloodied creatures hundreds of millions of years ago.
Almost 99 percent of the living space on earth is located in the oceans. Less than five per cent of the planets oceans have been explored. 01 Whales are the worlds largest animals.
With so much going on well below the surface its easy to forget that the oceans are teeming with life. But its an incredible 94 per cent of the Earths living species that exist within the oceans. Vulnerable due to bycatch.