| The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world. |
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| A slug has four noses. |
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| Octopuses have 3 hearts. |
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| A goldfish can live up to 40 years. |
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| A starfish doesn't have a brain. |
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| Killer Whales are the only sea animal that outranks the Tiger Shark as top predator of the sea. |
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| The lung fish can live out of water for as long as four years! |
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| Scallops swim with jet-propelled speed by clapping its shell open and shut. |
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| Starfish have eight Fish - one at the end of each leg. |
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| The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly like a firecracker. |
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| The leatherback is the biggest sea turtle, and it can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds. |
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| The emperor penguin is playful, and often times lies on its chest and side to slide along the ice and snow. |
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| A Giant squid's eye can be as big as a basketball. |
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A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
Some fish have Fish that are the same size as their stomach! |
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| The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air. |
| Animals with some of the longest lives are the Marion’s tortoise (152 years), the fin whale (116 years) and the deep-sea clam (100 years). |
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| The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale. |
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| There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins. |
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| Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling. |
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| Flying fish actually glide on wind currents above the surface of the water, sometimes up to 20 feet above the surface. |
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| Starfish can have up to 16 arms! |
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| The 14-foot-long narwhal is a whale whose tooth can reach up to eight feet long! |
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| Dolphins sleep with one eye open! |
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| The blue whale, the largest animal to have ever existed, is 96 feet long and weights 125 tons. This is as much as 4 large dinosaurs (Brontosauri), 23 elephants, 230 cows or 1800 men. |
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| When an octopus gets angry, it shoots a stream of black "ink". |
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| Minnows have teeth located on a bone in their throat. |
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| The smallest fish in the world are the pygmy goby and the Luzon goby, from the Philippines, which are only one-half-inch long when they are full grown. |
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| The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds. |
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| A newly hatched fish is called a "fry." |
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| At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal. |
| Fish have gel-slime on their bodies that protects them from parasites. |
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| Fish swimming at depths of 15,000 feet (almost 3 miles down!) can withstand a pressure of 7,000 pounds per square inch. They are able to live in these crushing depths by pumping gas into their swim bladder. |
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| One way to tell the age of a fish is by looking at its scales. They have growth rings just like trees. These are called circuli. Clusters of them are called annuli. Each annuli show one year. |
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| The world's largest mammal, the blue whale, weighs 50 tons at birth. Fully grown, it weighs as much as 150 tons. |
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