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Interesting
Facts About
Vertebrates By Mason Gaddis
Facts
Amphibians became the first vertebrates
to live on land.
Facts
Some turtles and tortoises, including the
Eastern box turtle, can live for more than
a century.
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.
Facts
Averaging ten to 12 feet in length, the
king cobra is the largest venomous snake
in the world.
Facts
There are 8,240 species of reptiles in the
world, inhabiting every continent except
Antarctica.
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.
Facts The now-extinct elephant bird of
Madagascar laid an egg that weighed 27
pounds.
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.
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.
Facts
Hooded Seals go from infancy to
childhood to adolescence to adulthood
in just four days - the shortest childhood of
any mammal.
Facts
Stingrays use electric sensors to find food.
This enables it to find its prey even if it is
buried in the sand.
Facts
Hagfish and Lampreys are the only remaining jawless fish in the world.
Hagfish Lamprey