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Sea Turtles

facts about sea turtles

Sea turtles are one of the Earth's most ancient creatures. The 7 species that can be found today have been around for aproximatly 110  million years, since the time of the dinosaurs. The sea turtle's shell, is streamlined for swimming through the water. Unlike other turtles, sea turtles cannot retract their legs and head into their shells. Their color varies between yellow, greenish and black depending on the species.

This is a photo of the game designers swimming 

with Turtles in Mexico

Although sharks have a reputation as destructive beasts that attack almost anything that enters their water habitat, the actual number of shark attacks is probably lower than you imagine.

There are many different types of sharks including the great white shark, hammerhead shark, bull shark, tiger shark and mako, they all offer varied and interesting information

facts about sharks

Amazingly, starfish can regenerate lost arms. This is useful if thestarfish is threatened by a predator. The starfish can drop an arm to get away. Starfish house most of their vital organs in their arms, so some can even regenerate an entirely new starfish from just one arm and a portion of the star’s central disc. It takes almost a year for this to happen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

facts about starfish (sea stars)

Sharks

Starfish

Fish

facts about fish

Fish are vertebrate animals that live in the water. Vertebrate means they have a spinal cord surrounded by bone or cartilage.Fish have gills that extract oxygen from the water around them.There are over 30000 known species of fish

The environment and lifestyle of the octupus means that they need to be capable of complex and flexible behaviour.​ As active predators they need to explore, understand and remember their environment and the behaviour of all other animals. Studies have shown that the octopus can learn easily, including learning by observation of another octopus. They can solve problems, as when they remove a plug or unscrew a lid to get prey from a container. They are the first invertebrates to be seen using tools, such as using coconut shells to hide from potential predators and using rocks and jets of water in a way that could be classified as tool use.

Facts about the octupus
The Octupus
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