"An illustrated look at the weird and wonderful creatures that
live in the very deepest parts of the sea."
Humans have always wondered, with a mixture of fear and
fascination, what lurks beneath the surface in the depths of the
ocean. In this book, Erich Hoyt introduces 50 of the oddest
creatures you will ever meet in the sea. From the carnivorous comb
jelly to the lantern-carrying deep-sea dragonfish, from a vampire
squid with giant eyes to dancing jellyfish, Hoyt explores these
peculiar conditions and their equally peculiar environment.
These creatures have adapted to lack of light and, using sound
pulses (echolocation) or light-producing organs and pigment cells
(emitting light via bioluminescence), they are able to communicate
without giving their location away to predators.
These stunning, captivating photographs weren't taken from the
portholes of submarines. Photographers David Shale, Solvin Zanki
and Jeff Rotman worked with oceanography institutes, museums and
the BBC Natural History Unit, taking long cruises across the ocean
to record and try to understand these little-studied residents of
the deep sea. To capture the creatures for observation, a net was
lowered far beneath the surface. As soon as the trawl was hauled
aboard, the photographers would race to transfer the most unusual
animals to fresh seawater aquariums in a chilled laboratory on
board.
These pages let readers gaze into strange, wild eyes and study
faces with toothless or crooked smiles that witness the fruits of
deep-sea evolution. Informative captions explain what the patterns
of lights on their bodies are "saying" to others in their
absolutely dark world. The wonder and extraordinary weirdness of
what lives in the deep seas, so far away from us and yet so close,
will become more familiar with this book.
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