Arctic Ocean Animals Facts
The horn-like spike is actually more like a long tooth that grows from the upper lip.
Arctic ocean animals facts. They are able to swim long distances in cold waters and are also fast movers on the land. Click the picture to visit our polar bear facts page. They are the largest terrestrial mammalian carnivore species.
The Arctic Ocean is home to whales walruses polar bears and seals. They are also called the unicorn of the sea. Fram basin is the deepest spot in arctic ocean.
Above the ice and below beluga whales narwhals bowhead whales walruses seals murres prosper brown bears arctic wolves and arctic foxes. Those are the fast ice polar ice and pack ice. They have the characteristic horn in the front that makes them look like no other sea animal.
Theres the Arctic wolf which like many Arctic animals has a thick white coat. Nautical transits have been made over the Arctic Ocean since 1958. Most of the Arctic Ocean is covered by ice throughout the yearalthough that is.
In winter when more of the ocean freezes over and thick snow covers the land animals and plants have adapted to keep warm and survive. The temperature in Arctic Ocean is around -20 to -70 degree Celsius. Polar bears are marine mammals.
Endangered marine species in. Alaska and its coast line support the whole of Americas polar bear population and contain a. Facts about Arctic Ocean 7.