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Amazing adaptations don't just take place at 6000m.
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some that are much nearer home as well as in truly alien environments. And find out how you can do your bit to save the alien world we know so little about.
Deep sea animals
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Cystisoma/
giant amphipod
Oplophorus
Gnathophausia/
red mysid shrimp
Vent shrimps
Hatchetfish
Winteria
Anoplogaster/
Fangtooth
Dragonfish
Hairy angler fish
Gulper or pelican eel
Malacosteus/
Sniper scope fish
Vent fish
Sleeper shark
Hagfish/
slime eel
Ctenophore
Periphylla
Sea gooseberry
Dumbo octopus
Cranchiid/
bathyscaphoid squid
Pompeii worms
Vent tube worms
Deep sea infobursts
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Counter-illumination
Chemosynthesis
Bioluminescence
Black smoker
Mid-ocean ridge
Ocean trench
Plate tectonics
Sea mount
Thermal plume
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