Yabbies are a type of freshwater crayfish or crawdad as the Americans call them, which are found in Australia. They are a crustacean which has an external skeleton. Yabbies have smoothed shells and can be many colors, depending on the habitat where they live. Greens, browns yellows blues and black are not at all uncommon
Some say the humpback whale is fifty feet long, others that it is more like sixty-five feet long. Either one is a pretty impressive length. Their flippers are very large also, from three feet wide to possibly 16 feet long. Humpback Whale Diving That is a nice size flipper for the female whale to protectively
The killer whales today evolved from mammals that had four legs. Inside the flippers of the whales is a bone structure typical of a four-legged animal’s foreleg and paw. Leg bones, unseen by us, are there buried in the flesh of whales. The tail of the whale is muscle. They most certainly were able to
The Gray Whale is a baleen whale. What this means is that they have two blow holes and special plates that they can use to filter their food. Gray Whales are extremely large in size, and grow to as long as 45 feet. Gray Whales make an incredible migration which traverses the entire area from
Dolphins, along with whales are mammals, and are supposed by researchers and historians to be the remnants of land mammals, which entered the water to live several million years ago. Dolphins have residual legs near where the tail meets the body as you can see in this picture of a dolphin. Dolphins are very fast
The Alligator Gar is an aggressive, solitary fish found in the southeastern United States. The alligator gar is the largest species of gar and is the largest exclusively freshwater fish in North America. It can be as long as eight to twelve feet and often weighs at least 100 pounds at maturity. The current world
Bull Sharks are known by many other names, among them Cub Shark and Nicaragua Shark. They have a very stout body and a broad short face and snout. Their eyes are very small in comparison to their bodies and they boast a pointed typical dorsal fin. The upper part of their bodies is pale gray,
The Lizard fish is a smaller predator fish that lives in the depths of the water. They are found throughout the world. The Lizard Fish has a very short dorsal fin, a small fatty second dorsal fin and a caudal fin which bursts a very deep fork in it. Lizard Fish It has a large
A Black Dragonfish is a very long, very thin fish that lives in deep water and will go as low in the water as about 2 thousand feet. They are at home in the depths of the ocean and will spend their entire lives there, without surfacing much closer than a thousand feet below the
The nurse shark is a large and very sluggish shark that lives on the bottom of the ocean. Usually Nurse Sharks are harmless, unless they are provoked to anger. Nurse sharks have extremely strong jaws and a very wide head with barbells protruding from it. (A barbell is a whisker looking protrusion that is made
The Whale shark is a very slow, filter feeding shark. Sometimes these are also called suspension feeders. This means that they strain food from the water through some special physical structure, an example of this is the brushlike teeth, called baleen, of the baleen whales. Some other animals that use this method of obtaining food
Known as the living fossil, the coelacanth was thought to be extinct for many thousands of years. Then amazingly, one appeared alive. The ancestors of this fish date to the dinosaur era several million years ago and it was thought that all that we would ever see of it were fossils, which appeared many years
Contrary to popular myth, sea dragons are not a species of sea horse. They are found only in Australian waters and although they belong to the same family as sea horses they are a distinct species. They do not have a pouch for their babies, and the male sea dragon carries them instead on is
Tropical rays, which are in some circles thought to be related to sharks, Sawfish are found in rivers, lacks and places here saltwater will be mixed with fresh water in Australia. Sawfish have a very flat body, with a long flat snout that has given them the nick name, sharks with swords. Sawfish Sawfish have
The tiger shark, which is a night hunter has a reputation for eating anything in its path, little caring if it is nutritional or not. Tiger sharks are known to be very aggressive. They have an ability to pick up pressure waves that help him to move toward an animal in even the darkest sater.
