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Episode 08 - Creatures of the Deep. Marine invertebrates, the descendants of one billion years of evolutionary history, are the most abundant creatures in the ocean. In the Sea of Cortez, packs of Humboldt squid make night-time raids from the deep to co-operatively hunt sardines. Beneath the permanent Antarctic sea ice of McMurdo Sound, sea urchins, red sea stars and nemertean worms are filmed scavenging on a seal carcass. A fried egg jellyfish hunts amongst a swarm of Aurelia in the open ocean, spearing its prey with harpoon-like tentacles. In the shallows off South Australia, hundreds of thousands of spider crabs gather annually to moult. (from wikipedia.org)

Episode 08 - Creatures of the Deep


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Episode 01: Challenges of Life
Episode 02: Reptiles and Amphibians
Episode 03: Mammals
Episode 04: Fish
Episode 05: Birds
Episode 06: Insects
Episode 07: Hunters and Hunted
Episode 08: Creatures of the Deep
Episode 09: Plants
Episode 10: Primates