Did You Know?

• Corals and other marine invertebrates make up 95% of life in the oceans and are responsible for a 10th of the planet’s land.
• Antarctic sea urchin babies can synthesize proteins more efficiently than any other organism ever recorded.
• Sailfish can strike bait moving at 32km per hour – over four times faster than Olympic Gold Medallist swimmer, Michael Phelps.
• Some snakes can go for two years without food.
• An adult Pacific giant octopus is about four metres long and the largest one recorded weighed 270kg – yet newborns are only the size of a grain of rice.