Marine researchers are discovering new ocean creatures every day,
especially at its deepest depths. From the author of Creatures of
the Deep, Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises and other
books about the ocean and the animals that live there, comes a new
title about some of the most unusual marine life forms. The book
organizes the creatures into three parts based on where they live
in the ocean. Each part has representatives from the various marine
animal classes (e.g., fish, crustaceans, jellyfish and
siphonophores, squids, tunicates and other invertebrates).
Informative captions accompany the 90 gorgeous photographs of
otherworldly creatures. Part 1: Surface Waters of the Ocean at
Night: The Blackwater Vertical Migrators. In images taken by
dedicated blackwater photographers Linda Ianniello and Susan Mears,
these mostly larval creatures haunt the near-surface waters making
vertical migrations every night to feed. Part 2: Middle to Deep
Dark Waters: Masters of the Language of Light. In this perpetual
night, survival is a matter of being able to understand and process
light signals, some in different colours, some flashing, some faint
- the most sophisticated use of bioluminescence on Earth. The sea
creatures here are small with big eyes and even larger mouths with
extraordinarily sharp teeth; Photographer David Shale travelled
with BBC Blue Planet and other expeditions to photograph these deep
sea creatures, while photographers Solvin Zankl, Alexander Semenov
and others brought their own dedication to expeditions in the
Pacific, Indian, Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Part 3. The
Continental Shelf to the Abyssal Plain: The Bottom Dwellers. This
bottom of the sea has fewer fish, and is populated by such
alien-like creatures as no-eyed or tripod fish, sea cucumbers, as
well as basket stars, crabs, and worms with species varying by
depth and location. The introduction to each part of the book
describes what makes the ocean waters at that depth unique, and why
it is home to specific types of sea life. The photographs were
taken in the ocean by expert divers and submariners, most of whom
are both scientists and underwater photographers. The images
display the creatures vividly against a background as black as the
ocean depths.
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