• An animal that always has his head screwed on right.
The seahorse is the only animal with its head at a right angle to its body.
• It must get expensive buying new shoes for these guys.
A live fish in the open sea never stops growing.
• An animal that always has his head screwed on right.
The seahorse is the only animal with its head at a right angle to its body.
• It must get expensive buying new shoes for these guys.
A live fish in the open sea never stops growing.
• Olympic egg-laying champion!
The sunfish is the world champion egg layer. In one spawning a sunfish can lay 300 million eggs!
• Fishing for fish with fish.
Remoras are used in some parts of the world to catch fish. Fishermen tie a line to its tail, then the remora is pulled up after it sucks onto a fish.
• Hi-ho tuna, away!
The bluefin tuna can weigh more than a horse, and can move faster, too.
• The fastest gums in the west.
Frogfish are the world's fastest reflex feeders, 1/400 second.
• Do they know whether they are coming or going?
Eels can swim backwards as fast as they swim forward.
• Killer elephants...Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the jungle!
Elephants kill more people every year than sharks do.
• Can they buy their shoes for half-price?
Sea snails (and land snails, too) are the only animals with just one foot.
• World's biggest mollusc.
The giant clam (Tridacna gigas) has the largest shell in the world. It can grown over 4 feet (1.2 meters) across and weigh more than 700 pounds (318 kilograms).
• What was that you said?
Squid have little or no sense of hearing.
• Here's looking at you kid.
Octopi have the most developed eye of all invertebrates (animals without a backbone). They even see in color.
• It's ten o'clock at night...Do you know where your arms are?
Researchers have found that an octopus has to look at arms to know what they are doing.
• Little squirts.
An unhatched baby octopus can squirt ink.
• Son, you may only grow up to be a stinger, but you can be the best darn stinger in the world!
The Portuguese man-o-war jellyfish is actually a colony of animals, each with a special duty: feeding and digestion, protection (by stinging), reproduction or transportation.
• Most poisonous animal on Earth.
The most poisonous animal on Earth is Australia's box jellyfish. The sting can kill a human in as little as four minutes.
• They never get in trouble for eating with their fingers.
The horseshoe crab only creature in the world that chews its food with its legs.
• Breath-holding champions.
Some whales can stay underwater for an hour.
• Biggest animal on Earth.
The blue whale is the largest animal on earth: 100 feet, 150 tons.
• Do bowhead whales talk to themselves, too?
A lone bowhead whale can sing two notes at a time, a duet.
• I guess their mothers didn't tell them they shouldn't eat stuff off the floor.
Gray whales are the only whales known to feed on the sea floor.
• Yea, but can they quack like a duck!?
Beluga whales can whistle like a bird, squeal like a pig, baa like a sheep, whinny like a horse, and growl like a dog.
• How about football, too?
Beluga whales play tag.
• I guess that's why you never meet a forgetful dolphin.
A dolphin has to remind self to take a breath. Dolphins don't breathe automatically as you do. They breathe when they tell themselves to breathe. You might expect them to control it consciously, they being underwater so much. They nap for moments on the surface. With one eye open to check the action.
• The Earth is deeper than it is high.
The average depth of the ocean is 12,451 feet. The average height of land above sea level is 2,756 feet.
• Deepest Place in the Ocean.
The deepest point in the ocean is the Marian Trench, in the Pacific Ocean, 6.5 miles deep, more than deep enough to completely cover Mount Everest.
• Are people on low salt diets allowed to swim in the Atlantic Ocean?
The Atlantic Ocean is much saltier than the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic is saltier than other oceans because some of the water that evaporates from the Atlantic is carried by winds into other oceans. Because of this, the Atlantic constantly loses fresh water to other oceans and becomes saltier.
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