- The candlefish is so oily that it was once burned for fuel.
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- There are species of fish that can walk on land in search of water when its water source dries up. Some can survive as long as three days on land such as the snakehead fish.
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- The largest fish in the world is the whale shark. It can weigh several tons and grow to more than fifty feet in length.
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- The ocean sunfish can produce thirty million eggs at once.
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- Ninety-five percent of tropical fish sold in North America originate from Florida.
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- The world's oldest fish is the coelacanth. Scientists believed it to be extinct 60 to 70 million years ago. A living coelacanth was found in 1938.
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- Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years. This is before sharks and dinosaurs.
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- A swordfish can live as long as 25 years and weigh up to 1,200 pounds.
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- Catfish have tastebuds located on their whiskers.
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- Twit is the name given for a pregnant goldfish.
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- In China, fish is eaten more than three times what it is in the United States.
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- Atlantic salmon can jump as high as 4.5 meters out of the water.
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- A salmon with two mouths, two sets of teeth and two tongues was caught by Bob Bateman of Canada.
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- Minnows have teeth located on a bone in their throat.
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- In order to mate, a male deep sea anglerfish will bite a female when he finds her. The male will never let go and will eventually merge his body into the female and spend the rest of his life inside the female mate. The males internal organs will disappear apart from the testes that are needed to for breeding.
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- The clown fish has the ability to change its sex. If a breeding female dies, the male fish will change its sex and mate with another male.
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- There was once a fish caught in Delaware Bay with a watch still ticking inside.
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- The hydra, which is related to the jellyfish, can grow its body back in a couple of days if it is cut in half.
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- A single pond in Brazil can sustain a greater variety of fish than are found in all of Europe's rivers.
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