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Melanie Pendleton
A fish can drown in water if there isn’t enough oxygen.
Sharks are the only fish that have eyelids.
Starfish, or sea stars, can regenerate a lost limb.
Electric eels have enough electricity to kill a horse.
A hagfish can produce enough slime to fill a bucket in minutes.
Most fish cannot swim backwards.
The mudskipper can survive some time out of water and “walk” on its fins.
The fastest fish is the sailfish. It can reach a speed of seventy miles per hour.
A seahorse can move each of its eyes separately. One eye can look backward while the other looks forward.
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