Aquatic Animals - Facts for Kids

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Random Facts About Aquatic Animals For Kids

When two nudibranchs meet and are ready to mate, they sometimes do a little courtship dance — waving, touching with their tentacles, and circling around each other before mating!

The Pink Meanie jellyfish has tentacles that can stretch up to 70 feet (21 meters), longer than a school bus!

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Manatees belong to the scientific order Sirenia and are classified as marine mammals, just like whales and dolphins.

A large jellyfish can consume up to 600 tiny fish or about 35 copepods (tiny crustaceans) per day!

An Orca’s tail fin (called a fluke) can be up to 9 feet (2.74 meters) wide — that’s wider than a king-size bed!