The ocean bears many secrets, find 20 incredible marine life facts below.
1. The oceans provide 99% of the living space on the planet containing 50-80% of all life
2. Many fish are sequential hermaphrodites which are born as females and become male later on. Clownfish are all male except the largest one which becomes a female
3. A group of dolphins is called a pod, eel or oysters a bed, fish a school or shoal, jellyfish a fluther or smack, salmon a bind, draught or run, sea urchins a herd, trout a hover and turtles a bale, dole or nest
4. Parrot fish produce 85% of the sand that builds up reef islands like in the Maledives
5. Moray eels are not aggressive when they open and close their mouth, they are actually just breathing
6. Mimic octopus can imitated flounder, jelly fish, sting ray, sea snake, lionfish or just a rock/coral
7. Whales make the loudest sounds underwater with 188 dBs, the whistle can travel up to 500 miles
8. Boxer crabs carry two anemones around looking like pom poms
9. Seahorses are the only animal where the male gives birth
10. Sponges are older than dinosaurs
11. Ribbon eels start their life as male black eels, change to male blue when adult and at a last stage they become yellow females
12. Some types of nudibranch are solar-powered and use sunlight to produce energy
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13. Octopodes have 3 hearts
14. Frogfish do not have teeth and therefore have to swallow their prey whole
15. The thresher shark uses its scythe-like tail to hunt by slap small fish like sardines stunning them
16. The peacock mantis shrimp can vaporize water
17. Pygmy seahorses stay on the same sea fan their whole life and might only move around in a plate sizes area
18. Parrotfish produce their own sleeping bag made out of mucus at night to be safe from predators
19. Boxfish are made out of bone box with holes only for eyes mouth and fins
20. Some types of parasitic isopods can enter fish through the gills and attach themselves to the tongue. The parasite causes the tongue of the fish to fall off and then serves as tongue-replacement
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Sharks sleep but they never close their eyes. Tiger and bull sharks will eat just about anything. 90% of animals are in the ocean
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A octopus has 3 hearts but did you know that when it swims only 1 works so octopodes prefer to crawl along the sea bed
A fully grown man can swim down a blue whales blood vessel
A blue whales tounge is as heavy as a fully grown elephant
starfish have 5 eyes. There located at the end of each arm
Thanks a lot for adding some more cool facts!