10 giant animals on the ocean floor
The ocean floor is home to many giant and mysterious sea creatures: white shark, giant mussel .
The largest predatory fish on earth, giant white sharks are the horrors of hundreds of marine animals.
Giant mussels, the world's largest mollusk, often attach themselves to sand or coral reefs.Their body length can be up to 1.2 meters, and their weight can reach 227 kg.
Giant crustacean is the largest of the crustaceans, 7 pairs of feet.Their body length ranges from 19 to 36 cm, and their maximum weight is 1.7 kg.
Fin whales (gray back whales) are the second largest animal on earth.Their length is up to 25 meters (male) and 27 meters (female).In the horned Whale, they swallow a large amount of seawater into their mouths and use the horns like a comb in their mouths to filter krill and tiny fish, and the seawater flows backwards.
Lion's mane jellyfish is the largest size of the jellyfish family.The diameter of their bodies can reach 2 meters, and the length of the tentacles is up to 15 meters.The largest recorded individuals were found, drifting to the coast of the Massachusetts Bay in 1870 with a body diameter of 2.29 meters and tentacles of 37 m long.
From the womb, the length and average weight of the blue whale has been about 7.6 meters and 3 tons.When they reach adulthood, most of them have the same body length as a bus and weigh up to 200 tons.
The body size of giant spider crabs can reach 3 meters.To evade enemies, they can "mingle" into the sand at the bottom of the ocean, burrow into the shells of other sea animals or hide under sponges.Giant spider crabs live in the sea floor area from 150m to 300m or more above the sea.
With an average body length of 12 meters, whale sharks are the largest fish in the ocean.Although belonging to the shark family, whale sharks do not hunt.They feed by sucking water into their mouths to catch small fish and plankton.White spots on the body are one of the characteristics of whale sharks.
The giant starfish's body is covered with large rows of thorns.They have the ability to reproduce the limbs.Even some can regenerate the whole body.
"Portuguese boat" is the name that people place for sea animal clusters.They are easily mistaken for giant jellyfish.Most of their tentacles are about 10 meters long, but some clusters have tentacles up to 50 meters long.
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