- Some sea spiders that live on the bottom of the ocean have a proboscis that looks like a straw. They stick this into the animals and suck out their juices. Scientists have yet to name these blind spiders.
- Scientists who study fish are called Ichthyologists.
- A group of herring is called a siege. A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
- Piranhas are feared as man-eaters, but most species eat fruits, seeds and fish.
- Oils from the orange roughy, a seep-sea fish from New Zealand, are used in making shampoo.
- The blue whale’s aorta ( main blood vessel) is so broad that a human could crawl through it.
- A damaged reef may take twenty to fifty years to recover. Those seriously harmed by slit or pollution may never recover.
- The fastest human can run at 8 kilometres per hour. A Swordfish can swim as fast as 130 kilometres per hour. The slowest fish in the ocean is the seahorse. It moves at0.016kph.
- The deadliest fish in the world is the stonefish. It has sharp and poisonous spines, and blends in with stones, lookin just like them.
- An atoll is a circle of coral reef a=often built on the crater rim of a volcano.
- June 8 is celebrated as Ocean day.
- Like humans, whales too have bellybuttons.
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