In the Deep Blue Sea

The female blue whale is the queen of the sea. She grows to more than 30 meters long and is heavier than 25 African elephants. Baby blue whales are 8 meters long when they are born. That’s longer than 2 cars. Whales are mammals, they are not fish. When they go to surface to breathe air, hunters can catch them easily. They are fast and they are very scary.

Sharks are better swimmers than other fish and they can smell their food from far away. They lived in the sea before dinosaurs lived on earth. The king shark, the great white shark, is smaller than a baby blue whale, but it is not scarier. It has got more than 2500 sharp teeth and attacks many swimmers every year.

Is there anything more dangerous in the sea? Yes! The blue-ringed octopus is shorter than your little finger and its blue rings get brighter when it is scared. People think it looks pretty, but if you see one, don’t pick it up! It hasn’t got sharp teeth like a shark, but its sting is more poisonous than the cobra snake and it is worse than a shark bite!