interesting facts about vertebrates
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Interesting
Facts About
Vertebrates By Mason Gaddis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Facts The now-extinct elephant bird of
Madagascar laid an egg that weighed 27
pounds.
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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