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The Hadal zone is made up of the very deepest parts of the ocean, causing it to be totally dark, and constantly cold, with a very intense pressure. You may think that the Hadal zone is lifeless, due to the conditions, but it was proven that there was life when Jaques Piccard and Don Walsh reached...
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library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00116/hadal.htm
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Animals that live in the abyssal zone are fish just like in the rest of the ocean. But, these fish are unique. Fish like the deep sea angler and Dragonfish are some of the biggest predators here. Giant squid and plenty of plankton also live...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_animals_live_in_the_abys...
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anglerfish, Cryptopsaras couesi, Physonect siphonophores, and a lot more.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_animals_live_in_the_abys...
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Because water pressure increases one atmosphere every 33 feet in depth, animals in the abyssal zone must be able to withstand tremendous amounts of pressure. This pressure makes it very difficult for humans to explore the deep ocean.
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www.thewildclassroom.com/biomes/abyssal.html
www.thewildclassroom.com/biomes/abyssal.html
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Benthic zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. Organisms living in this zone...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benthic_zone
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Pelagic zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Any water in the sea that is not close to the bottom is in the pelagic zone . The word pelagic comes from the Greek πέλαγος or pélagos , which means open sea . It can be thought of in terms of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagic_zone
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Some of the strangest creatures live in the icy darkness of the deep sea, the abyssal zone. Hundreds of feet below the ocean surface, the sun never shines. Some animals, like the lanternfish, make their own light to attract food and scare off predators.
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www.sitesalive.com/tg/ol/private/hs/hstgolzones.htm
www.sitesalive.com/tg/ol/private/hs/hstgolzones.htm
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Some ocean animals live near the shores in shallow waters, in tide pools, ... There is a zone where fish live called the abyssal zone. Most species living in the abyssal zone belong to groups that also live in shallower marine places. Deep-sea species of squids, octopus, worms, and mollusks, for example,
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volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/luis.htm
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the abyssal zone: the pitch-black bottom layer of the ocean; the water here is almost freezing and its pressure is immense. ... Therefore, most of the animals in the ocean live in the sunlit zone or migrate to it in search of food...
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www.mos.org/oceans/life/index.html
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