Facts About Animals In The Ocean
Learning about ocean animal adaptations.
Facts about animals in the ocean. 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. The study of animals and other elements of marine biology dates back to Aristotle who lived from 384 to 322 BC. With so much going on well below the surface its easy to forget that the oceans are teeming with life.
Ocean Sunfish by Per-Ola Norman via CC0 9. The next zone down stretching to about 1000 meters 3300. Jellyfish small fish zooplankton and algae.
A bivalves shell has two parts. Understandably oceans are home for numerous aquatic animals. I wanted the kids to learn a few things about how animals are adapted to life in the ocean.
Just five percent of the earths oceans have been explored so far and we already know about 230000 water animal species. Ocean Sunfish Latin Name. We looked at how fish and sharks move their tail fins from side to side but whales move their tail fins up and down.
Here are some more fascinating facts about interesting creatures of the ocean-The Octopus. Ocean animals consist of four main types of warm-blooded live-bearing marine mammals - whales seals manatees and otters. Animals such as oysters mussels and clams are bivalves.
Ocean animals like land animals exist in a wide variety of species. The nature of earth is defined by the presence of the organisms. Most bivalves are ocean animals but some live in freshwater habitats.