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·       Seafood is an important part of a healthy diet. The oils and vitamins in fish and shellfish help to reduce heart disease and promote vitality.

·       European Lobsters take five years to reach a marketable size of just over a pound. They cast their complete shell to grow and can live to 15 years or more.

·       A crab hatched in Norfolk may walk to Scotland. Tagging experiments have shown that some crabs move over 100 miles a year during their seabed migration.

·       Scampi are relatives of lobsters and crabs and live in deep water off our coasts. When the female has eggs she remains in a burrow for protection.

·       The rings on a scallop's shell can be used to age the animal. Some scallops live for ten years or more.

·       Scallops swim with jet-propelled speed by clapping its shell open and shut.

·       Fish never close their eyes.

·       Some fish hide their babies in their mouths. At the first sign of danger, they’ll open their mouths and let their babies swim inside.

·       Remoras, or "suckerfish," hitch rides with sharks and other large sea animals by attaching the sucking disk on top of their heads to the shark's underside.

·       Fish use their mouths for many things that people do with their hands: collecting food, building homes, and taking care of their babies.

·       Some father fish carry the eggs that contain their babies in their mouths until they hatch!

·       If a porcupine fish is confronted by danger, he or she will gulp water and inflate up to 2 feet, and sharp needles will pop out to frighten off predators.

·       Spotted boxfish release poisonous mucus when they are captured by other fish, causing predators to spit them out because of the bad taste!

·       Swordfish can swim more than 40 miles an hour.

·       Fish have taste buds on their lips, tongues, and all over their mouths. Some fish have whiskers that can taste, too. Some fish can taste their food before it even reaches their mouths!

·       Fish who want to be cleaned swim to cleaning stations, where they wait in line for special "cleaner fish" to do their job. The small cleaner fish remove and eat parasites and other material from the larger fish’s skin. The larger fish will also let the cleaner fish swim into their mouths and eat food particles stuck in their teeth.

·       Fish cannot live in the Dead Sea because the water has too much salt in it?

·       A parrotfish makes its own sleeping bag to sleep in. It uses mucous (like spit) to make a see-through bag all around it's body to protect it from attack by other creatures in the ocean.

·       The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.

·       Octopuses have 3 hearts.

·       A goldfish can live up to 40 years.

·       A starfish doesn't have a brain.

·       Killer Whales are the only sea animal that outranks the Tiger Shark as top predator of the sea.

·       The lung fish can live out of water for as long as four years!

·       Starfish have eight eyes - one at the end of each leg.

·       The snapping shrimp, only 1 1/2 inches long, makes a noise with its one big claw, which sounds exactly like a firecracker.

·       A Giant squid's eye can be as big as a basketball.