| Hey kids, what do you think is the most unexplored | | | | head is a long tentacle with a sac on the end filled with |
| part of our planet? It's not the depths of the rainforest. | | | | glowing bacteria. The anglerfish hides itself on the |
| It's not the burning deserts. It's not even the frozen | | | | ocean floor, and wiggles its tentacle around. |
| Arctic waste. The most unexplored parts of our planet | | | | Unsuspectitng fish are attracted to the worm-like |
| are our oceans! We're just beginning to realize what | | | | tentacle, thinking it might make a tasty meal, and snap! |
| kind of incredible mysteries are hidden in the deep, | | | | They are chomped up by the anglerfish's jaws, which |
| dark waters. | | | | look just like a mouth full of knives! |
| Our oceans make up a huge part of our planet - over | | | | Have you ever seen those little gray pillbugs that you |
| 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by them! They | | | | can find in the garden? They look like tiny grey tanks, |
| help control the temperature of the planet, shape the | | | | and roll up into an armoured ball if they are threatened. |
| weather, and are home to millions of living things. | | | | Well at the bottom of the ocean, you can find an |
| The deepest part of our planet is the Mariana trench, | | | | animal that looks just like one of those pillbugs - only it's |
| near Japan and the Philippines. At it's deepest point, it | | | | over a foot long! |
| reaches 10,924 metres (or 6.78 miles) deep. That | | | | But one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean |
| means if you were to take Mount Everest, the highest | | | | is the famous giant squid. For many years, people |
| mountain on Earth, and stick it at the deepest part of | | | | thought the giant squid was just a legend. Then whale |
| this trench, there would still be more than 2 kilometers | | | | watchers started to notice marks on the sides of |
| of water over the top of it! | | | | some whales, like they'd been caught by a suction cup |
| Fortunately, scientists have invented special deep | | | | that was the size of a dinner plate! Finally, the bodies |
| water research cameras and vehicles that can reach | | | | of some squid washed up on the shores of |
| into the cold, dark, high-pressure world of the deep | | | | Newfoundland, and the squid went from science fiction |
| sea. And what we're starting to discover is that these | | | | to science fact! They can grow up to 13 metres long, |
| dark, deep, freezing waters are filled with living things. | | | | and are wicked predators, snaring prey with the |
| Go down deep enough, and the living things you find | | | | serrated suction cups on their tentacles and devouring |
| look like aliens from another world; it's discovering | | | | them with their sharp beaks. |
| these strange creatures that makes science fun! | | | | Even though we think we've explored the planet, |
| Imagine yourself stranded on the bottom of the ocean, | | | | we've really just scratched the surface. There's a |
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