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Interesting Facts About Vertebrates By Mason Gaddis

Interesting facts about vertebrates

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Page 1: Interesting facts about vertebrates

Interesting

Facts About

Vertebrates By Mason Gaddis

Page 2: Interesting facts about vertebrates

Facts

Amphibians became the first vertebrates

to live on land.

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Facts

Some turtles and tortoises, including the

Eastern box turtle, can live for more than

a century.

Page 4: Interesting facts about vertebrates

Facts Frogs can breathe not only with their

lungs, but also through their skin. A frog's

skin is thin and contains many mucous

glands that keep it moist. Oxygen can be

absorbed through this thin, damp skin.

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Facts

Averaging ten to 12 feet in length, the

king cobra is the largest venomous snake

in the world.

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Facts

There are 8,240 species of reptiles in the

world, inhabiting every continent except

Antarctica.

Page 7: Interesting facts about vertebrates

Facts The oldest bird was known as an

Archaeopteryx and lived about 150

million years ago. It was the size of a

raven, was covered with feathers, and

had wings.

Page 8: Interesting facts about vertebrates

Facts The now-extinct elephant bird of

Madagascar laid an egg that weighed 27

pounds.

Page 9: Interesting facts about vertebrates

Facts A female Pacific Grey Whale gestates

and delivers a 2000 pound baby, migrates

over 10,000 miles, and produces 6 tons of

breast milk without eating a bite of food -

using just her blubber for fuel.

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Facts Shrews have so little body fat they cannot

go more than a couple of hours without

food. Missing a meal is a sure way to a

quick death. A good night's sleep could

be fatal.

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Facts

Hooded Seals go from infancy to

childhood to adolescence to adulthood

in just four days - the shortest childhood of

any mammal.

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Facts

Stingrays use electric sensors to find food.

This enables it to find its prey even if it is

buried in the sand.

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Facts

Hagfish and Lampreys are the only remaining jawless fish in the world.

Hagfish Lamprey