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Many different animals live in the ocean. The ocean extends over more than 70 percent of the earth's surface. Unfortunately, human beings are a non-aquatic life form so the majority of the wonders of the marine world go unseen. If we lived in the water, though, we would see the tallest mountains in the world, the deepest valleys and, most importantly, the most varied and numerous collection of animal species.
It is impossible to accurately state the number of marine species that exist, but scientist have estimated a formidable number of over two million. This means that there are many different kinds of animals living in the ocean. The biggest animal on earth, the blue whale, is found in the ocean as well as some of the smallest organisms on earth (collectively called plankton).
Animals in the ocean vary in shape, size, color, living environment, type of food, and even breathing mechanisms. The majority of people could easily many name ocean dwellers including whales, dolphins, sharks. Some might even remember sld"Nemosrd" who was a clown fish, but most forget about the smaller, but just as amazing, prominent animals that share the marine habitat with these bigger ocean occupants.
The environment in which a tube worm lives is one of the most extreme on earth. Tube worms live near hydrothermal vents which are openings in the ocean floor where hotter-than-boiling water containing minerals spew out. As these vents are on the ocean floor, they are so deep underwater that it is utterly dark (there is no sunlight whatsoever), and there is a pressure so intense that the lungs of a human being would be instantly crushed.
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