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FISH BY: CORENA ROMERO
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What defines this category? What defines this category is that it is a cold blooded use gills to breathe underwater.
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What are some common animals in this group? Sharks Clown fish Goose fish Gold fish Tuna fish Trout Algae eater Goblin shark
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Facts They come in many shapes and sizes. If you pull a fish backward its lungs get filled with water drowning them. There are over 25,000 identified species of fish on the earth. Fish were well established long before dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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Interesting pieces of information Fish can be found in high mountain streams and in the deepest ocean depths.
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Teach the class A fish is any aquatic vertebrate animal that is covered with scales and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Most fish are ectothermic or (cold- blooded). Fish are abundant in most bodies of water.
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Fish Fish were among the first animals systematically hunted by primitive humans Even today, relatively primitive societies in the South Pacific and South America depend largely on fish for food. while in many industrialized nations, fish still constitute a major part of the diet.
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references Wikipedia Google List of common names
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More about fish There are more species of fish than all the species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals combined. 40% of all fish species inhabit fresh water, yet less than.01% of the earth's water is fresh water.
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Puffer fish Biologists think puffer fish, also known as blowfish, developed their famous “inflatability” because their slow, somewhat clumsy swimming style makes them vulnerable to predators. In lieu of escape, puffer fish use their highly elastic stomachs and the ability to quickly ingest huge amounts of water (and even air when necessary) to turn themselves into a virtually inedible ball several times their normal size
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