The are many wonders in the waters of our planet.

Some frightening just because!

This is for my grandsons who love sharks and other water creatures.

If you visit here you will find some scary Monsters of the deep and not so deep!

Prehistoric, a living fossil? Very interesting!

The Vampire Squid also known as Vampyroteuthis. (Vamp - ire - o- tooth - is)

It is actually not a squid, and its not an octopus. It is in its own animal group being neither an octopus nor a squid called Vampyromorphida.

When you watch the video you will see that its red coloring adds to its already scary self! It also has the largest eyes of any animal compared to its body size.

Even though it looks big and scary in these videos and pictures its only about 6 inches to 1 foot long. It lives deep in the oceans where there is almost no light at all and where the water is around 35 to 45 degrees which is about 2 to 6 degrees Celsius.

They have BLUE BLOOD! Their blue blood's carries oxygen throughout its body.

It has light organs which it can turn on and off. It uses the lights to protect its self.

The Vampire Squid does not squirt black ink like other squids instead it send out a sticky mucus that is like blue fireworks. It can do this for up to 10 minutes to confuse its enemy and hopefully swim away into the dark ocean.

By drawing up the skin between their arms like an inside-out umbrella

showing the underside of the caped arms it sorta looks like a pumpkin.

http://www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/organism/pictures/vampy.html

A Squid has eight arms and two tentacles.

An Octopus has eight arms and no tentacles.

An Octopus always live alone in cave like dens on the sea floor.

Squids live in the open oceans may live alone or in schools

You may have heard of the Giant Squid, what about the Colossal Squid?

It is even larger than the Giant Squid.

In 1925 a sperm whale was caught that had bitten off two tentacles of a Colossal Squid. The tentacles were found inside the sperm whales stomach!

Then in 1981 some fishermen caught one that measured about 14 feet, is was a young female.

They found one in 2003 that was 20 feet in length.

The biggest one caught was off the Antarctica coast in 2007.

Some fisherman from New Zealand caught it. The squid measured about 33 feet when caught. Now that’s a big Squid! No that’s a COLOSSAL SQUID!

Watch the video below!

Sharks have rows and rows of teeth. They will never run out of teeth. If one gets broken off there is one right behind it to take its place.

Sometimes sharks teeth wash up on the beaches and you can find them. You can tell what kind of Shark it is because each type of shark has its own type of teeth.

Unlike us and most animals both the sharks upper and lower jaws move.

For some fun activities and more information go to

http://www.kidzone.ws/sharks/activities/index.html

First film of a 'giant' stingray

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8347000/8347298.stm

Stingrays are known to be gentle however, if provoked, like any wild creature, they will defend themselves.

They seem to only attack in self-defense. Most humans get stung when someone accidentally steps on a stingray that is buried in the sand and the stingray whips up its tail and pops the human in the leg or ankle. The stingray has a very sharp stinger.

There is also poison in stingray's stinger. It will hurt a lot but most of the time a person will survive the sting. Check out this Video of Jeff Corwin when he was walking along the beach and stepped on a stingray OUCH!

http://animal.discovery.com/videos/corwins-quest-a-stingrays-kiss.html

"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was tragically killed by a stingray .

If a stingray stinger hit’s a person in the heart, it is very bad. That is what happed when the "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray.

Interesting Stingray Information

- The stingray lives from about 15 to 25 years.

- Stingrays come in different sizes from about 8 inches and can grow to about 15 feet.

- It is related to sharks but it is not a shark. Stingrays are sometimes food for sharks.

- Stingrays do not have bone, they have cartilage.

- Most stingrays swim alone.

- Stingrays do not lay eggs. They usually have 5 - 15 babies called a litter and the babies

are called pups.

- When the babies are born they are able to swim with their mother.

- They live in the oceans all over our world.

- Along time ago Greek dentists used the poison from stingray as a medicine.

Stingrays look a lot they are flying in the water.

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