But not all food comes from the sunlit world above. 不过不是所有的食物来自阳光普照的海面上
In places, it's riven by great fissures, from which superheated water loaded with dissolved minerals 在这里 海底裂缝中含有大量溶解矿物质的滚烫海水
Crabs can detect the faintest of tastes in the water and that helps them locate the latest body to drift down from above. 蟹类可以从水里嗅到从上面落下的尸体的极细微的气味 并以此追踪到食物
A monkfish, almost indistinguishable from the sand on which it lies. 一只安康鱼 肉眼几乎不能辨别躺在那里的它和沙子
As you travel away from the rocky margins of the continents an immense plain stretches ahead. 当你越过满是岩石的海底陆地边缘 前面便是广阔的海底平原
Bioluminescent bacteria shine from pockets on it's arms to confuse it's predators. 它的足囊中的发光微生物发出的光可以迷惑敌人
vampyroteuthis, the vampire squid from hell. 幽灵蛸,来自地狱的吸血鬼鱿鱼
Gazing ever upwards, it watches for prey, silhouetted against the faint glimmerings of light from the surface. 向上凝视, 可让它在微弱光线的环境下发现猎物的影像
Those strange leg-like appendages are feathered, to stop it from sinking. 它的这些附肢样的奇怪的腿, 上面的羽毛可以防止它沉下去
Marine snow, detritus from the creatures swarming in the sunlit waters above. 海雪是海洋表面上的生物产生的小型有机物碎屑