Why The Pacific Ocean Turns Sea Creatures Into Giants

Описание: The Pacific Ocean is massive, so vast it covers a third of the entire planet. But beneath its endless blue lies a mystery that scientists have struggled to explain for decades. Why do creatures down there grow so unbelievably huge?
We’re talking about crabs the size of trash can lids. Squids with eyes bigger than your head. Isopods that look like something from a horror movie, crawling across the sea floor like armored tanks. Even ordinary animals, worms, spiders, and starfish become monstrous when they live in the Pacific depths.
It’s called Deep-Sea Gigantism, and nowhere on Earth is it more extreme than in the Pacific. From the freezing trenches of the Mariana to the dark plains off Japan, this ocean seems to super-size everything that lives in it.
But why? What’s down there that makes creatures evolve into monsters?
To understand, we have to go into a world of darkness, pressure, and hunger where evolution plays by completely different rules. Down here, survival isn’t about speed or strength. It’s about endurance. And in the deep Pacific, the only way to survive… is to grow big.