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Walruses are marine mammals endemic to the cold Arctic waters, just like leopard seals and crab-eating seals are endemic to Antarctic waters. Walruses, like whales, have huge bodies and can provide humans with a large am···
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Among mammals, good divers should be those that live in the ocean, also known as sea animals. The ancestors of the sea beasts living in the ocean today are terrestrial mammals. After hundreds of millions of years, they g···
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In the seal pool in the seaside park, the seals swim and play in the water all day long. They are lively and cute. If trained, it can also perform performances such as playing ball. The seal has a round body, mottled bod···
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The Steller's sea lion is also known as the sea donkey and Steller's sea lion. It is the largest species of sea lion. The face is short and wide, the snout is blunt, the eyes and outer ear shells are relatively small, an···
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Marine animals that are warm-blooded, viviparous, and nurse their young with breast milk are called marine mammals. They can also be called wild beasts in the ocean. Whales are mammals in the ocean. There are many types ···
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Sea snakes are venomous snakes that live their entire lives in seawater. Sea snakes have upward-facing nostrils with valves that can be closed back. After inhaling air, they can close their nostrils and dive underwater f···
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The tortoiseshell carapace has four pairs of rib shields. The head is about 12 centimeters wide and the carapace is 0.9 meters long. 2 pairs of forehead scales, carapace scutes are thin and arranged in an imbricate shape···
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The leatherback turtle's carapace has seven longitudinal ribs and no scutes. The head is about 25 centimeters wide and the carapace is about 1.9 meters long. The limbs are flipper-shaped and have no claws. The forelimbs ···
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Turtle is the general name for marine turtles. There are 5 species of marine turtles living in our country's oceans (there are only 7 species in the world), mainly distributed in the Xisha Islands and the port of Huidong···
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The common name of seahorse is Longluozi. The sides of the body are flat, curved, and covered with annular bony plates. Generally 10 cm long. Seahorse leaves are light brown. The head is at right angles to the body, rese···
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The sunfish looks very strange. Its body is short and backward, its dorsal and anal fins are opposite and very high, and its tail fin is very short. It looks like it has been cut off with a knife. Therefore, its common n···
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In the vast ocean, sharks known as "Kings of the Sea" are found all over the world's oceans, and there are more than 70 species in the China Sea (about 350 species in the world). Most sharks are beneficial to humans but ···
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The Thousand-Year Snapper is very tall, with medium-sized comb scales, and all the scales above and below the lateral line run diagonally. The snout is blunt and pointed, and the dorsal edge is straight. The front end of···
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The brown scorpionfish has spines on the back of its head. The space between the eyes is deep and narrow, half the eye diameter. The lower edge of the orbital bone has no spine; the lower edge of the preorbital bone has ···
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The dorsal edge of the head of Xu's flat scorpionfish is low, and its rear end has sharp spines. The distance between the eyes is wide and even, approximately equal to the diameter of the eyes. There are no scales on the···
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The feathered butterflyfish has 14 dorsal fin spines, and the trailing edge of the fin ray is sharp and convex. The head has a horizontal band across the eye diameter. There are multiple feathery diagonal bands on the si···
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The money fish only has canine teeth at the front of its upper jaw. The posterior angle of the infraorbital bone is not very oblique, and the straight line formed by its posterior edge extends posteriorly, far in front o···
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There are 25-27 scales in a row of mud fish. The preorbital and infraorbital bones are scaly and have serrated lower edges. There are 3 horizontal bands on the sides of the body. A small warm-water fish that inhabits cor···
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Thin-spined fish has flat sides and is covered with tiny scales. The head is small, the mouth is small, and the snout is slightly pointed. The teeth in both jaws are small. The operculum membrane heals and is not connect···
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The long-billed red eagle's snout is long and pointed, in the shape of a needle-nose pliers. The body is slender and silvery white. The side of the body is evenly distributed with red stripes vertically and horizontally,···
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Common name of black double sawfish: saddleback clown. Body tan. There is a wide white horizontal band on the back edge of the eye, and a second white horizontal band on the side of the body extends to the edge of the la···
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Common name of round-winged swallowfish: red bat. The front parts of the dorsal and anal fin rays are extended, and the ventral fins are also extended. The dorsal edge of the head and fin edges are orange-red. Body lengt···
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The female purple seal fish is bright yellow, the male fish is rose red, and there is a square purple spot behind the pectoral fin on the side of the body. Body length 100mm. Distribution: Taiwan, tropical Indian Ocean a···
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The common name of yellow high-fin surgeonfish is: yellow tango. The snout is pointed. Each side of the caudal peduncle has a lying forward spine that can be erected. The body is yellow, without stripes or dark spots, an···
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