What creatures were discovered in the Mariana Trench?
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What creatures were discovered in the Mariana Trench?
10 Strange Animals in the Mariana Trench
- The Dumbo Octopus can be found in the Mariana Trench.
- The Angler Fish can be found very deep in the Trench, where it is particularly dark.
- The Frilled Shark is a scary looking deep-sea shark.
- The Goblin Shark has a weird extruding nose.
Does anything live in Mariana Trench?
The Mariana Trench is deeper than Mount Everest is tall and anything living there has to survive the cold water and extremely high pressure. Some animals, including the deep-sea crustaceans Hirondellea gigas , do live there —and they have recently had a human visitor.
Is the Megalodon still alive in the Mariana Trench?
The earliest megalodon fossils (Otodus megalodon, previously known as Carcharodon or Carcharocles megalodon) date to 20 million years ago. For the next 13 million years the enormous shark dominated the oceans until becoming extinct just 3.6 million years ago.
What if we fall in Mariana Trench?
The pressure from the water would push in on the person’s body, causing any space that’s filled with air to collapse. (The air would be compressed.) So, the lungs would collapse. At the same time, the pressure from the water would push water into the mouth, filling the lungs back up again with water instead of air.
What’s the scariest ocean?
The Devil’s Sea is called the Bermuda Triangle of the Pacific, and it’s not difficult to understand why: this area off the coast of Tokyo is also known for strange disappearances and shipwrecks, including the MV Derbyshire, the biggest ship ever lost at sea.
Is the MEG still alive in 2021?
Megalodon is NOT alive today, it went extinct around 3.5 million years ago.
Can megalodon still exist?
But could megalodon still exist? ‘No. It’s definitely not alive in the deep oceans, despite what the Discovery Channel has said in the past,’ notes Emma.
Can Godzilla live in Mariana Trench?
And if the terrible lizard is radiation-hardened, he can probably withstand the pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which is more than 8 tons per square inch, or the equivalent of 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person, according to a description by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center website.