Barracudas by Sammy

A barracuda has sharp teeth and a long thin body. Small barracudas are as long as a pillow and adult barracudas are as long as a bed. Barracudas have big mouths and smooth silver scales.
Barracudas are a cold blooded killer. Barracudas eat small fish and octopuses.
Barracudas live in warm or cool waters under the sea.

Interesting Facts:
1. Did you know young barracudas swim in schools and adult barracudas hunt by themselves?
Did you know that there is oxygen in sea water so fish can breathe especially barracudas?
Sources:
1. Barracudas by Deborah Nuzzolo
2. Website: Shedd, The Worlds Aquarium

The Octopus by Erica

All octopuses have 8 arms called TENTACLES. On each tentacle there are 2 rows of sticky cups called SUCKERS. Octopuses also have 2 huge eyes. Octopuses have no skeletons. They can change colors to look like their surroundings. They can look back without their turning their heads.

Octopuses eat oysters, crabs, clams, lobsters, and shrimps. If you go diving, you might find octopuses living in coconut shells, rocky caves, reef crevices, and wrecked ships.
Here are some interesting facts about octopuses…
· There are 150 kinds of octopuses in the world.
· One type of octopus lives 2 miles beneath the sea.
· The longest Octopus grows as long as a school bus.
The shortest one is as long as a skateboard.
· Some of the tiniest Octopuses are smaller than your
thumb and weigh as much as a peanut!
Source:
· Octopuses by Lola.M.Schafe
· Octopuses by Jenny Marker
· Website: Wikipedia - Octopus

Flying Fish by Sean

A flying fish has large stiff fins as long as their body. A flying fish looks like a torpedo. A flying fish eats smaller fish, plankton, and even small crustaceans. Flying fish lives in the tropical oceans.

Interesting Fact:

A flying fish glides.

Sources:
1. Aquatic Life pg 210
2. http://www.ask.com/

Sea Stars by Riya

Sea Stars have bumpy skin. They come in many different colors and are different sizes. They have five arms or more. Sea stars are shaped like stars. Sea Stars eat clams and oysters. Sea Stars live in the cooler coastal waters, in lagoons and coral reefs.

Interesting Fact:
There are about 1600 Sea Stars.

Sources:
Aquatic Life of the World, Volume Nine

Seaweed by Chenoa

There are three kinds of algae: Red, Green and Brown. Seaweed can be very tiny, or can be large, growing to 30 meter long!!
Seaweed is in danger because some swimmers and surfers have come to untimely ends when they have become entwined in strongly anchored Seaweed.

Facts:
1. People eat Seaweed especially in East Asia.
2. Seaweed can be food, Medicine and fertilizer.

Sources:
1. Seaweed-Wikedie
2. BBC-SEAWEED

Frog Fish by Jamie

Frogfish look like rocks plants or sponges. They are bumpy, lumpy and short. They also have many colors. They are weird and have large mouths. They are prickly and they grow about 30 cm or 12 in a long.

A Frog Fish eats fish, crab, lobster, shrimp, barnacles and sometimes each other.

Frog Fish live in waters near the Ambon Island and Bali Indonesia.

Interesting Fact:

There are between 46-48 frog fish species.

Sources:
1. Aquatic Life of the World
2. Frog Fish by Jody Sullivan Rake

Sea Snakes by Soma

Sea Snakes look like land snakes, but they have a flattened tail paddle. This flat tail helps them to swim well and go fast. They don’t have one color instead they have lots of colors. Sea Snakes eat crustaceans, fish eggs, sharks, and electric eels. Sea Snakes live in coral reef and underwater caves.

Interesting Facts:
· Sea Snakes have poison like scorpions and frogs.
· If people attack sea snake attack us.

Sources:
Seamonster: Sea Snake by Homer Seward

Sea Horse by Alia

Only the head looks like a horse. The body looks like a night’s armor.
They can only grow up to one foot tall, about 1-12 inches long.
They live around the coral reef and they hide in some fan coral. They also hide in the sea grasses that look like a forest. (Did you know that some people made a sea horse hotel in Bali!)
Do you know how they hug and hang on? Their tails tangle together. (I know because I used to have 2 pet sea horses but they died.) They eat plankton, seaweed and baby shrimp. (Do not ever forget to feed your seahorses!) Each sea horse has a different shaped crown. The fins are like a tiny dragon’s on their back. They don’t swim like a fish! They move like a gentleman walking slowly on their tails.
The male seahorse carries the eggs in its pouch. It has to take care of them until they hatch. Them the baby sea horses pop their heads out and swim away. They swim straight away to a safe place to hide.

Stingrays by Prahalad

Stingrays look like pancakes and flat gray paper. Stingrays eat fish, worms, shrimp, clamps, squids and other shellfish. Stingrays live in rivers and oceans.

Interesting Facts:

1. Stingrays can electric shock.
2. The spotted eagle ray can go faster than an eagle.

3. Stingrays can give burning and deadly wounds.

Sources:
Rays by Jody Sullivan Rake
Sea Monster Rays by Homer Seward

Green Turtles by Allison

Green turtles have scales. Green turtles feed on sea grass, algae, jelly fish and fruits. Green turtles live mainly in tropical seas and are found in Australia’s water. Green turtles spend most of their lives in the sea.

Interesting Facts:
Green turtles hatch.
Green turtles take about seven weeks to hatch.
Most of the hatchings will be female.

Sources:
1. Book - Green Sea Turtle by Greg Pyres
2. Website – World Wildlife Federation - Green Turtle

Mako Shark by Bastian

A Mako shark is 11 feet long. It has sharp teeth and it has short pectoral fins. Some have longer pectoral fins. It can see in the dark with its big black eyes. A Mako shark eats Tuna, Mackerel, Swordfish, Herring and Porpoises. A Mako shark lives in cool and warm water in the Pacific Ocean from Oregon to Chile.

Interesting Facts:

1. A Mako shark is the fastest shark in the sea.
2. It can leap out of the water.

Sources:

1.Mako shark and website from the deep blue sea.

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