• Question: what is your environment like?

    Asked by dragon077 to Abyssal Grenadier, Baltic clam, Brachiopod, Common starfish, Naval Shipworm, Orkney vole, Scottish Crossbill, Snake Pipefish, Twisted-wing fly on 20 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Naval Shipworm

      Naval Shipworm answered on 20 Nov 2017:

      Dark! I live inside wooden tunnels, which I excavate as I eat. However, as a larva I float around the ocean for a bit – this is a bit more scenic, but much, much more dangerous!

    • Photo: Common Starfish

      Common Starfish answered on 20 Nov 2017:

      I live on mussel beds all around the coast of the UK. Sometimes I get caught by fisherman that catch fish living on the sea bed – but they usually just throw me back in the sea. In stormy weather sometimes I can get washed up on a beach at low-tide – then I just have to hope that a seagull doesn’t try to eat me before the tide comes in. Once I got caught by a seagull that carried me up into the sky, but I managed to escape by making the arm that the seagull was holding me with fall off. Then I fell back into the sea and re-grew the lost arm. So I have seen the sea, land and the sky … but the sea is where I like to be!

    • Photo: Snake Pipefish

      Snake Pipefish answered on 20 Nov 2017:

      The northeastern Atlantic Ocean! you can find be both close to shore in shallow waters, swimming around seagrasses and algae, or in the open ocean alone in the water column. I am the only ocean pipefish in the world.

    • Photo: Twisted-wing Fly

      Twisted-wing Fly answered on 21 Nov 2017:

      I live in a host, so the interior of the host is my environment

    • Photo: Abyssal Grenadier

      Abyssal Grenadier answered on 21 Nov 2017:

      Extreme!! I live up to 4500 meters (~14,700 feet) below the surface of the ocean. I live in what’s called the abyssal zone. There is perpetual darkness, the temperature ranges from 2 °C to 3 °C (35 °F to 37 °F), and the pressure can be near 400x times more than what you experience standing at the beach. The food in the abyssal zone is limited and I am constantly searching for the next dead animal to sink down from above. My environment is not for the weak, and I have many adaptions to survive the dark, the temperature, and the pressure. Sequencing my genome will help scientists understand how I and my deep-sea friends live in the deep-sea.

    • Photo: Scottish Crossbill

      Scottish Crossbill answered on 29 Nov 2017:

      Full of trees! And a bit cold and rainy if not snowy given crossbills are in the top end of Scotland.

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