the.com/marine life
everything that ever decided land was overrated.
means the full range of organisms living in oceans and seas, from microscopic plankton to the largest animal that has ever existed.
from life began in the ocean roughly 3.7 billion years ago and stayed there almost exclusively for the next 3 billion, meaning every land creature is technically a fish that got ambitious.
biomass championocean holds 80 percent of all life on earth
unmapped territorymore than 80 percent of the ocean remains unexplored
oxygen sourcephytoplankton produce over half of earth's oxygen
still discoveringnew marine species named nearly every week
for instance
blue whale — largest animal ever, heart alone weighs as much as a car
mantis shrimp — punches with force accelerating faster than a bullet
immortal jellyfish — turritopsis dohrnii can revert its cells to youth, indefinitely
giant pacific octopus — solves puzzles and unscrews jars in captivity