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- A shrimp has more than a hundred pair of chromosomes in each cell nucleus.
- Dolphins can kills sharks by ramming them with their snout.
- During it's lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.
- Giant squids have eyes as big as watermelons.
- No pearls of value are ever found in North American oysters.
- Only thirty percent of the famous Maryland blue crab are actually from Maryland the rest are from North Carolina and Virginia.
- The adult Electric Eel has enough electrical power in them that could power a house of about twelve hundred square feet.
- The beautiful but deadly Australian sea wasp (Chironex fleckeri) is the most venomous jellyfish in the world. Its cardio toxic venom has caused the deaths of 66 people off the coast of Queensland since 1880, with victims dying within 1-3 minutes if medical aid is not available.
- The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel.
- The dolphins that live in the Amazon river are pink.
- The Portuguese Man-of-War "jellyfish" tentacles have been known to grow a mile in length, catching anything in it's path by stinging it's prey.
- The electric eel has an average discharge of 400 volts.
- The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.
- The shrimp's heart is in its head.
- When young, black sea basses are mostly female, but at the age of 5 years many switch sexes to male.
- You can cut up a starfish into pieces and each piece will grow into a completely new starfish.
