Lake Baikal Marine Life

Endemic species inhabits lake baikal by shakir r on videohive.

Lake baikal marine life.

Endemic species inhabits lake baikal. The lake s thriving marine life is in part thanks to hydrothermal vents inside the lake which act as entryways for cold water to enter cracks in the earth s crust venturing toward the magma deep inside the surface. Wild life of lake baikal animal spread on the boundary of the two elements land and water on the narrow baikal shore fascinating and peculiar life forms are found. The bottom of the lake is 1 186 5 m 3 893 ft below sea level but.

Lake baikal is a surprising and unique natural laboratory where one can study the life in abyssal fresh waters. Amazingly an estimated 100 000 nerpa seals call lake baikal home. The baikal shore is a unique ecological niche the inhabitants of which are connected with both dryland and water. Bears elk lynx and other wildlife abound in the surrounding forests and mountains.

New varieties and species of organisms are continuously developing in the lake. 1 800 species of which 80 percent are endemic the omul salmon the oily golomyanka fish and the freshwater seals called nerpas. Lake baikal is in a rift valley created by the baikal rift zone where the earth s crust is slowly pulling apart. Lake baikal russian ozero baykal also spelled ozero bajkal lake located in the southern part of eastern siberia within the republic of buryatia and irkutsk oblast province of russia.

Throughout its history both baikal itself and the organisms inhabiting its world have undergone a complicated evolution. Lake baikal is home to more than 2 000 species of plants and animals two thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world including the baikal omul fish and baikal oil fish as well as the nerpa one of the world s only freshwater species of seal. Saving and protecting marine life for present and future generations since 1973. In 1997 the cousteau team travelled the lake to film the rich diverse life in it.

It is the oldest existing freshwater lake on earth 20 million 25 million years old as well as the deepest continental body of water having a maximum depth of 5 315 feet 1 620 metres.