With climate change and all the attacks earth is suffering from, we wanted to list some facts about fish that we think you didn’t know and may be interesting;
The mudskipper is a fish that spends most of its time out of water and can “walk” on its fins. It carries a portable water supply in its gill chambers when it leaves the water. It can also breathe through the pores of its wet skin.
Starfish are not fish. Neither are jellyfish.
Fish can form schools containing millions of fish. They use their eyes and something called a lateral line to hold their places in the school. The lateral line is a row of pores running along the fish’s sides from head to tail. Special hairs in the pores sense changes in water pressure from the movements of other fish or predators.
Most fish reproduce by laying eggs, though some fish, such as great white sharks, give birth to live babies called pups.
Although the fangtooth fish is only a few inches long, it has teeth about the size of a human’s.
Fish use a variety of low-pitched sounds to convey messages to each other. They moan, grunt, croak, boom, hiss, whistle, creak, shriek, and wail. They rattle their bones and gnash their teeth. However, fish do not have vocal chords. They use other parts of their bodies to make noises, such as vibrating muscles against their swim bladder.
Since a fish’s jaw is not attached to its skull, many fishes can shoot their mouths forward like a spring to catch startled prey.
Electric eels and electric rays have enough electricity to kill a horse.
Sharks are the only fish that have eyelids.
Source: Facts. random history
