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Undiscovered Creatures- Discovered!

Atlantic Wolfish pair – they eat crabs and other crustaceans.

Fangtooth fish

At around 16-000 feet deep

Giant Spider Crab

This deep-sea creature can grow up to 12 feet at its widest span.

Giant Tube Worms

These colonies of sea worms live near hydro thermal vents (openings on the ocean floor) and are able to

survive the poisonous gases that spew out from them.

Pacific Viperfish

This fearsome-looking creature lures its prey by means of lights on its belly!

Six-Gill Shark

Lives on the ocean floor by day, then rises to the sea's surface by

night, in search of food.

Vampire Squid

This ocean resident gets its name from the cloak-like appearance of its webbed arms when open.

Pippi Longstocking Worm

Wavy Sea Slug

The species was first discovered in 1930.

Glowing Jellyfish

The bright red sea creature has horseshoe-shaped anchors and prominent pads on its outer

tentacles.

The Blue Sea Squirt looks like a bouquet of iridescent slinkies. It lives on dead coral, and filters nutrients from water passing by. The

creature was first described in 1904.

Ubiquitous Crustacean

This crustacean, first discovered in 1905, inhabits oceans from South Africa all the way to Japan. It

is often found in shallow waters and prefers sandy seabeds littered with broken shells and dead

coral.

Pelagic Sea Hare

This colorful sea slug was first discovered in 1825 off the coast of New Guinea by French naturalists. The Stylocheilus

longicauda lives in warm waters amidst brown algae and rarely ventures close to shore.

Now imagine you are one of these sea creatures, or one from your own imagination.

Write a paragraph or poem about how you spend your days and nights.

Try to use plenty of adjectives to describe yourself and your underwater habitat.