8. The sea is home to the world’s largest living structure – the Great Barrier Reef. Measuring around 2,600km, it can even be seen from the Moon!9. We have only explored about 5% of the world’s oceans. There’s a lot more to be discovered!
Sea lions are 7 species of large marine mammals in the pinniped (seal) family. The sea lions ancient ancestors were land animals somewhat similar to bears. For reasons unknown these creatures returned to the ocean about 20 million years ago, where they have since become themost successful and...
Since seawater is saltier than the liquids in a fish’s body, water inside the fish is constantly flowing out. If they didn’t drink to replace the lost water, saltwater fish would dry up like prunes.[1] The oldest fishhook ever found dates back to about 42,000 years ago.[5] ...
1. The Arctic is located at the northernmost part of our planet. Scientists usually define the Arctic as the area above the ‘Arctic Circle’ — an imaginary line that circles around the top of the globe. 2. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, the...
Whale watching is very popular in South Africa too and you will encounter an enormous sea life in South Africa when you go on a boat trip. Read more about animals in South Africa on our special page here or click on the image.
A rattlesnake’s rattle is made of the same stuff that makeshuman hairand fingernails. That would be keratin. Every time a rattler sheds it skin, it grows a new rattling ring. Kind of like bells and angel wings. If you were to open the mouth of a snake — please don’t — then yo...
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After theAnglo-Saxons, came the vicious Vikings! Join the National Geographic Kids gang as we learn to live like a Scandinavian sea-warrior, in our ten fierce facts about the Vikings… Viking facts 1.The Vikings were famous for sailing huge distances from their home in Scandinavia between AD...
a process that the scientists discovered by accident. During laboratory observations, they noticed that an adult specimen was no longer in its tank, but a larva was there instead. That's when researchers Pawel Burkhardt and Joan J. Soto-Angel began trying to replicate the reversion on 65 other...
French angelfish reach sexual maturity when they are around 3 years of age and about 10 inches long.Spawningoccurs from April to September. They are nest non-guarders and reproduce in pairs via external fertilization. Unlike other fish that spawn in the open, French angelfish mate exclusively wi...