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| | DEEP-SEA Pages (Paul Yancey, Whitman College) |
 | | Life in the deep sea must adapt to unique conditions of low or no light, high pressure, low energy (except at hot vents and cold hydrocarbon seeps), and near-freezing or--at hot vents--superheated temperatures. |
 | | The most common fishes are the rattails or grenadiers; the most common large invertebrates are echinoderms such as sea cucumbers, seastars; but there are many other animals such as sea anemones, sponges, molluscs, crabs, seaspiders (pycnogonids), burrowing worms of many types; etc. Echinoderms such as sea cucumbers have been seen at 10,200m depths! |
 | | These are exceptions to the rule that the deep sea is energy-poor. |
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