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Animal Facts

Fish Facts


Male anglerfish fuse permanently to females in some deep-sea species
Coelacanths were thought extinct for 66 million years until 1938
The ocean sunfish is the heaviest bony fish
Salmon can smell their home stream from the ocean
Seahorses are the only animals where males give birth
Electric eels can generate over 600 volts
A whale shark is the largest fish in the world
Deep-sea anglerfish use glowing lures made by symbiotic bacteria
A flatfish starts life swimming upright — then one eye migrates
Some fish can walk on land
Cleaning wrasses run underwater service stations
An archerfish shoots water droplets to knock insects down
Pufferfish can inflate to several times their size
Flying fish can glide over 200 meters
A goldfish can remember things for months — not three seconds
A lungfish can survive months buried in mud

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