Did you know...?

The oceans and seas make up about two thirds of the Earth's surface. The largest ocean is the Pacific, which covers an area of 64 million square miles and is about two and a half miles deep! It is full of thousands of species of fish and other animals, including...  

Dolphins

The wonderful thing about dolphins
Is hearing them trying to speak,
But it's not, "How d'you do?"
Like I'd say to you,
It's more of a, "Click-whistle-squeak!"

Did you know...?

Dolphins only sleep with one half of their brain at a time! The other half stays awake to tell the body when to breathe. Unlike humans, dolphins have to think to breathe.

Jellyfish

The jellyfish just loves to jiggle,
Which other fish think is quite dumb.
She knows that it's not all that useful
But jiggling's very good fun.

Did you know...?

A jellyfish has no head, brain, heart, eyes, ears or bones. They do have tentacles that contain poisonous, stinging cells. When the tentacles brush against prey , thousands of tiny stinging cells explode, launching poison into the victim.

Stingray

At the bottom of the ocean
The stingray flaps his wings.
But don’t you get too close to him
His tail really stings!

Turtles

We crawl up the beach from the water
To bury our eggs on dry land.
We lay a whole batch
And then when they hatch
They scamper about in the sand.

Sharks

I swim with a grin up to greet you
See how my jaws open wide,
Why don't you come a bit closer?
Please, take a good look inside...

Did you know...?

Sharks never run out of teeth. If one is lost, another spins forward from the rows and rows of backup teeth. A shark may grow and use over 20,000 teeth in its lifetime! 

Blue Whale

There's no other beast on the planet
As big as the giant blue whale,
He measures a massive one hundred feet long
From his head to the tip of his tail.

Did you know...?

Scientists are really worried that the number of whales and other sea creatures is getting smaller and smaller, as they are starting to die out, and some of this could be our fault!

Plastic Pollution

If you drop any litter near any rivers or seas it will float away and may end up in the ocean. Plastic is especially harmful to the environment because it takes a long time to break down. It is estimated that every year over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 turtles and sea mammals die as a result of eating litter or by getting tangled up in fishing lines and nets.

We need to be careful what we do with our litter, and make sure it doesn't end up in the sea where fish and other sea creatures can get hurt. Everybody can make a difference by doing simple things - like putting rubbish in the bin, or taking it home and recycling it.