It was a bright July day. The calm sea off the northern coast of Norway sparkled in the sunlight. A flock of birds wheeled overhead. Suddenly an enormous, dripping, dark-gray shape shot up out of...
The “fin-footed” ones
It was September, and the beginning of spring in the southern part of the world. Near a small island in the Antarctic Ocean, the water was filled with bobbing brown heads. Hundreds of animals were...
Mammals
Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, and humans are some of the creatures called mammals uhls). They're all warm-blooded and have some hair. This is one way to tell them from fish and reptiles, which are...
Real sea serpents
There really are sea serpents! However, they aren't strange, giant monsters. They are simply real snakes. They're much like the snakes that live on land, except that they spend their lives in the...
Turtles of the sea
The biggest of all turtles makes its home in the sea. It's called the leatherback because its shell is covered by leathery black skin. A full-grown leatherback may be more than six feet (1.8 meters)...
Reptiles
> hawksbill turtle
Sea cucumbers
There's a sea animal that looks like a vegetable, gets its food by \"licking its fingers," and shoots out part of its insides if it is attacked! Because this animal looks like the vegetable called a...
Lilies of the sea
The sea lily is an animal that looks like a flower and is made almost entirely of chalk! This sounds impossible, but it's true. A sea lily looks like a flower with lacy, feathery petals on the end...
Sand dollars
> sea urchin on a sponge > A sand dollar isn't something you can spend. It's a small animal that > looks somewhat like a silver dollar or a cookie. Sand dollars are also > called sea biscuits or...
Pincushions of the sea
> sea urchins Imagine an animal that looks like a creeping pincushion! That's what many of the creatures called sea urchins look like. Let's visit a coral reef near Australia. At low tide you can...
