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 Largest Fish Whale Found In Tropical Warm Waters


Pets & Animals >> Largest Fish Whale Found In Tropical Warm Waters


The heading Largest Fish usually brings to the mind the picture of a whale shark. Rhincodon typus is usually treated as the biggest one among the living fish species. They live in tropical open warm seas. The species is understood to have originated 60 million years ago. It has visible marks that makes it spotted.



 Angel Fish Preferred Aquarium Species From Amazon Region


Pets & Animals >> Angel Fish Preferred Aquarium Species From Amazon Region


Angel fish are the most commonly preferred aquarium fish. They are mostly prized for their exotic variety, color and size. The scientific name for angel fish is Pterophyllum scalare. They have a compressed, disc like shape with long fins coming out of the top and bottom and have 2 'feelers' in front of the anal or bottom fin. The shape of the tail differs from variety to variety. It is vertically oriented and vary from scoop shovel shape to long and relatively narrow shape.



 Pilchard Fish Sardine Family


Pets & Animals >> Pilchard Fish Sardine Family


Pilchard is generally called Sardine by most of the people of the world. The actual meaning of Sardine is a group of different kinds of small oily fish found in the oceans. These kinds of fish belong to the family of Herrings which are sea fishes.




 Puffer Fish Poisonous Delicacy


Pets & Animals >> Puffer Fish Poisonous Delicacy


The Puffer fish refers to about 120 species of fishes that mostly live in tropical seas, but a few may be found in fresh or brackish waters as well. The teeth of the upper and lower jaws of the puffer fish are separately fused with a vertical gap in front. Like the porcupine fish, the puffer also uses its beaklike teeth for feeding on corals or animals, which have a hard shelled body.



 Bowhead Whale Endangered Artic Whale


Pets & Animals >> Bowhead Whale Endangered Artic Whale


The Bowhead Whale is also known as the Greenland right whale or the arctic whale, as it is found in the icy waters of the Arctic Ocean. It has been hunted nearly to extinction. The bowhead is so named because its huge jaw is curved like an archers bow. Within the jaw are massive baleen plates, which are bony structures with a sieve-like fringe that act as strainers when the whale feeds.




 Baboon Spiders Found In South Africa


Pets & Animals >> Baboon Spiders Found In South Africa


Baboon spiders are known as the giants in the spider world. They are also called tarantulas outside Africa. The traces of these spiders can be found in the literature book written by Petiver in1702. They were named Baboon spiders because their last two leg segments are similar to the finger of a baboon.



 Cookie Cutter Shark Wound Found In Animal Body


Pets & Animals >> Cookie Cutter Shark Wound Found In Animal Body


Cookie Cutter Shark refers to the wounds that are in the shape of a cookie that can be found on the bodies of larger animals. The bodies of these animals are in the shape of a cigar with a conical snout and two low, spineless dorsal fins that are positioned posterirly on the body.




 Mangrove Rivulus Fish From Aplocheilidae Family


Pets & Animals >> Mangrove Rivulus Fish From Aplocheilidae Family


Mangrove rivulus is a species of fish belonging to the Aplocheilidae family. It is found along the east coast of North, Central and South America from Florida to Brazil. The fish is remarkable for being able to survive outside water for months at a time, living in logs and breathing air. It is also known as the mangrove killfish and its binomial name is Rivulus marmoratus.



















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