John Richard Stephens, Author-Editor

Life Under the Sea

John Richard Stephens

Fern Canyon Press, 2025, ebook.

People often say we don’t know much about what’s going on in the ocean, but that’s not true anymore. While there’s still much that needs to be explored, researchers have made many very important discoveries which are not receiving the attention they deserve.

Would you like to find out what is really going on under the sea—how the strange creatures down there live, behave, and interact with each other? This book reveals that and more. The author strove to select information that the casual reader would find interesting, while trying to answer your questions before they arise, imparting useful knowledge, and sharing the beauty and wonder of the coast, starting close to home and moving out into the deep.

One of two companion books, this examines life in the ocean, across the surface, in the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, the midnight zone, the abyss, the trenches, on submarine mountains, and on chimneys. It also features:

Dangers at sea, storms, and ghost ships

Whale and dolphin societies, cultures, and communication

Shark and killer whale hunting techniques and social events

Advanced and varied weaponry

The many types of defensive tactics, including cutting off their own head

Different types of animals teaming up and working together

Fish forming hunting partnerships with octopuses or huge moray eels

Creatures that glow in the dark

Transformers

Creatures that are colonies

Animals that live hundreds or thousands of years—some potentially immortal

Bobbit worms, pigbutt worms, sea pigs, and the headless chicken monster

Creatures that come ashore

And so much more

The other book, Life Along the Shore, focuses on life along the coast, in bays, lagoons, estuaries, underwater grass meadows, kelp forests, reefs, tide pools, and beaches, while examining the animals’ intelligence, personalities, unusual lives and parenting strategies, possible pleasure and pain, sleep and dreams, unexpected vision, cryptic creatures, and sneezing sponges.

Both books are equally fascinating. You can start with either one.

Compiling all the peculiar and unusual discoveries the author could find, he worked full-time for two-and-a-half years searching through more than 200 books and 2,000 articles and scientific papers to gather this material together. These books are full of strange facts that are buried in the science literature and not easily accessible to the public.

This is the only book where you’ll ever see all of this information in one place, providing insight into what these animals lives are like, written in an easily accessible, casual, and entertaining style, with occasional touches of humor.

While there are many books that present the individual animals and facts about them, and many others are about the researchers who study them and what they learned, this book is not like that. Instead it brings the most interesting and entertaining information together, focusing on the sea creatures’ behavior and interactions with their neighbors, predators, and their environments.

While sea animals are very different from us and anything we’re familiar with, in many ways they are surprisingly similar to us. In this heavily illustrated book you’ll discover that there are a lot of unusual and amazing things going on underwater. It also highlights the beauty of life under the sea.

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		Life Under the Sea John Richard Stephens Fern Canyon Press, 2025, ebook. People often say we don’t know much about what’s going on in the ocean, but that’s not true anymore. While there’s still much that needs to be explored, researchers have made many very important discoveries which are not receiving the attention they deserve. Would you like to find out what is really going on under the sea—how the strange creatures down there live, behave, and interact with each other? This book reveals that and more. The author strove to select information that the casual reader would find interesting, while trying to answer your questions before they arise, imparting useful knowledge, and sharing the beauty and wonder of the coast, starting close to home and moving out into the deep. One of two companion books, this examines life in the ocean, across the surface, in the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, the midnight zone, the abyss, the trenches, on submarine mountains, and on chimneys. It also features: Dangers at sea, storms, and ghost ships Whale and dolphin societies, cultures, and communication Shark and killer whale hunting techniques and social events Advanced and varied weaponry The many types of defensive tactics, including cutting off their own head Different types of animals teaming up and working together Fish forming hunting partnerships with octopuses or huge moray eels Creatures that glow in the dark Transformers Creatures that are colonies Animals that live hundreds or thousands of years—some potentially immortal Bobbit worms, pigbutt worms, sea pigs, and the headless chicken monster Creatures that come ashore And so much more The other book, Life Along the Shore, focuses on life along the coast, in bays, lagoons, estuaries, underwater grass meadows, kelp forests, reefs, tide pools, and beaches, while examining the animals’ intelligence, personalities, unusual lives and parenting strategies, possible pleasure and pain, sleep and dreams, unexpected vision, cryptic creatures, and sneezing sponges. Both books are equally fascinating. You can start with either one. Compiling all the peculiar and unusual discoveries the author could find, he worked full-time for two-and-a-half years searching through more than 200 books and 2,000 articles and scientific papers to gather this material together. These books are full of strange facts that are buried in the science literature and not easily accessible to the public. This is the only book where you’ll ever see all of this information in one place, providing insight into what these animals lives are like, written in an easily accessible, casual, and entertaining style, with occasional touches of humor. While there are many books that present the individual animals and facts about them, and many others are about the researchers who study them and what they learned, this book is not like that. Instead it brings the most interesting and entertaining information together, focusing on the sea creatures’ behavior and interactions with their neighbors, predators, and their environments. While sea animals are very different from us and anything we’re familiar with, in many ways they are surprisingly similar to us. In this heavily illustrated book you’ll discover that there are a lot of unusual and amazing things going on underwater. It also highlights the beauty of life under the sea. Retail sites where you can get this book The main page