This short video comes from Becky Crew's post on the Running Ponies blog, it provides basic natural history of these unique organisms and gives us a visualization of their habitats several
kilometres beneath the oceans surface.
Emily Brodsky, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, helped organize the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), which successfully drilled across the Tohoku earthquake fault last year and installed a borehole observatory nearly 7
kilometers beneath the ocean surface.
Bradbury's book The Martian Chronicles had captured my imagination when I was a young boy and had, in some ways, led to my being on that research vessel, exploring new
worlds beneath the ocean surface.
This is literally where the rainforest meets the reef, as if the lush vegetation ashore has
spread beneath the ocean surface in an explosion of coloured corals.
Juveniles lose the bright, plankton - filtering gills seen on this individual when they mature and descend into some of the deepest depths of any known fish, often more than 5,000 meters (16,000 feet)
beneath the ocean surface.
These snailfish live almost five miles
beneath the ocean surface, in pitch - black waters and under immense pressure.
Beneath the ocean surface, there is an abundance and diversity of shapes, sizes and colours; for example, spectacular coral assemblages of hard and soft corals, and thousands of species of reef fish provide a myriad of brilliant colours, shapes and sizes.