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Pacific Sea

Age: 4-6

The Pacific is one of the seven seas. Follow my guide threw the Ocean to uncover all of the 7 secret treasures of the seas. The first sea is the Pacific.  The guardian of the Pacific is the 8 legged Giant Pacific Octopus! He has been roaming these lands for over 10000 years! That’s long before the sharks came to take over the land. He is also guarding something else… little white eggs. When they hatch the guardian will die. And the baby Octopuses will be orphans. When they grow up they will be guardians like they’re mother before them!  Coral Reefs are little cities inside the Pacific. They are living cities! Below the cities are gangsters! This gang of HumpHeads are eating the cities! And they are replacing the cities with sand! How awful! Further beyond this there is big emptiness. How will we find the treasure? Oh wait… there is a hole in the ground there! It’s a trench! It’s the Mariana Trench! the Pacific Treasure is in the Challenger Deep! We must find the treasure! It’s dark in the trench! Ooooh the pressure is getting stronger! Hurry up! Yes here is the treasure! It’s The Green-Magma-Rock!(I don’t know the real name :/  watch the Mariana Trench Episode of  Octonauts if you want to know the name) 1st Mission Complete!  Next Will be the Atlantic Sea! Byebye!

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The deep sea

Until 1938 they thought the coelacanth was extinct. 50 years later Erdmann found another species of coelacanth. The Japanese emperor discovered a rare comb jelly in 1941. This jelly like creature lives attached to a rock in the middle of the sea and feeds in the most extraordinary way. It throws out long sticky filaments which catch tiny prey drifting by in the water. The sea lily looks just like those found in fossils dating back 400000000 years. It has changed very little over the millennia. When something approaches it it starts waving it’s arms. It may look like a plant but it is in fact an animal. And if In danger it will resort to a remarkable strategy. It detaches itself and uses its feathery arms to crawl over the sea floor in search of a safer spot. 400000000 years ago thick carpets of these strange creatures covered the sea floor forming spectacular underwater meadows. The warm shallow waters were rich in plankton and there were few large predators. The Nautilus, an ancient relative of the Squid and Octopus and Cuttlefish hunted small marine invertebrates such as trilobites. Over time more formidable predators began to appear. Primitive Sharks, and huge armored fish with powerful jaws and the ability to swim swiftly, these formidable hunters ruled the shallow seas. A lot of the prehistoric sea creatures became extinct. sea lilies, and some other species survived and took shelter in the deeper ocean. During the age of the dinosaurs even bigger and more ferocious predators began to appear in the shallow seas. Large swimming reptiles like the plesiosaur. Those who lived in deeper waters were largely unaffected by the struggle for survival. If you want to get the full version, this is the link to the documentary by David Attenborough :  https://youtu.be/el9OJGEGWa8