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- Lamprey: a jawless fish with an eel-like body, circular sucking mouth, and triangular teeth; many are bloodsuckers.
- Leafy Sea Dragon: a fish with seaweed-like appendages for camouflage.
- Ling: a long slender fish of the North Atlantic.
- Lionfish: a venomous fish with red and white stripes and spiny dorsal fins.
- How many ocean animals are in the ocean?
- What animals live in the top layer of the ocean?
- What is the most important animal in the ocean?
- What's the biggest sea creature ever?
- What's the biggest thing in the ocean?
- What was the biggest ocean dinosaur?
How many ocean animals are in the ocean?
Ocean Life
Scientists estimate that about one million species of animals live in the ocean. But most of them—95 percent—are invertebrates, animals that don't have a backbone, such as jellyfish and shrimp.
What animals live in the top layer of the ocean?
The epipelagic zone reaches from the surface of the ocean down to around 650 feet. This is the zone most exposed to light, and as such is host to the highest concentrations of the ocean's life. There are thousands of animals that roam this zone, including dolphins, most sharks, jellyfish, tuna and corals.
What is the most important animal in the ocean?
Krill. The krill is perhaps the most important animal in the marine ecosystem!
What's the biggest sea creature ever?
Not only is the blue whale the largest animal to live on the Earth today, they are also the largest animal to have ever existed on Earth. A blue whale can grow up to 100 feet long and weigh upwards of 200 tons. A blue whale's tongue alone can weigh as much as an elephant and its heart weighs as much as an automobile.
What's the biggest thing in the ocean?
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is undoubtedly the biggest creature in the sea, and is in fact the largest animal to have ever lived on plant earth – a fully-grown blue whale is double the size of the largest land-dwelling dinosaur that ever lived.
What was the biggest ocean dinosaur?
Currie Dinosaur Museum. One of the biggest specimens ever found was identified as Mosasaurus hoffmanni and was estimated to be about 56 feet (17 meters) long in life, according to a 2014 study published in the journal Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS.
