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ANIMALS OF LAND AND SEA 



Mindanao in the Philippines where a depth of 6.08 miles — 

 32,113 feet or 5,352 fathoms — has been determined. 



No animal life is known from such depths as these. The 

 animal from the greatest depth so far recorded is a fish (Grimal- 



FiGS. 560-572. Polyzoans. 

 For explanations of the figures see p. xxix. 



dichthys profondissimns) which was brought up from 19,806 

 feet, or 3 3/4 miles, beneath the surface in the north Atlantic 

 by the late Prince of Monaco. Many other things, of course, 

 must live at this depth also for this fish to feed upon. It is 

 perhaps worthy of remark that a fish of the same type, a so- 

 called brotulid, lives in fresh water in the caves of Cuba. 



It was once thought that the abysses would contain many 

 relics of past ages which had become extinct along the shores. 

 But surprisingly few such relic types have come to light, and 



