By- Smit Patel Humanities- 145

What is a Sea Creature?

any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including

e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals are called sea creatures.

Vampire Squid

Vampire Squid
The vampire squid, known to scientists as

Vampyroteuthis infernalis.

Vampire squid are found throughout the deep oceans

of the world in most tropical and temperate regions at depths of between 300 feet (about 90 meters) and 3,000 feet (over 900 meters). They live in the oxygen minimum layer of the ocean where virtually no light penetrates. They seem to prefer a temperature between 35 and 43 degrees Fahrenheit (between 2 and 6 degrees Celsius).

Frilled Shark

Frilled Shark
Frilled sharks prefer to remain in the oceans' depths,

up to 5,000 feet (1,500 meters) below the surface. They are Considered living fossils, frilled sharks bear many physical characteristics of ancestors who swam the seas in the time of the dinosaurs. This 5.3-foot (1.6-meter) specimen was found in shallow water in Japan in 2007 and transferred to a marine park. It died hours after being caught. They Habitat World wide.

Frilled Shark

Frilled Shark Anatomy

When open, the frilled shark's mouth reveals 300 trident-shaped

teeth aligned in 25 rows. Aside from its unmistakable toothiness, the mouth looks larger than that of other sharks because its jaws terminate at the back of the fish's head instead of underneath the skull. The head appears to be all mouth, capped off at the throat region with six frilled gills, hence its name. The first gill slit cuts right across the throat, making it look as if someone sliced it with a knife there. The rest of the brown body is nearly identical to that of an eel, save for the elasmobranch's small pectoral fins, dorsal fin, anal fin and lengthy caudal fin. Because of the fin placement and shape, R. Aidan Martin of the ReefQuest Center for Shark Research once described the shark's posterior as looking like "the wings on a throwing dart."