March 13, 2023
The lion’s mane jellyfish measures up to 120 feet long, about 23 feet longer than the longest blue whale ever measured, making it the longest animal ever recorded.
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9 Fish Named After Other Animals
A recently translated 13th-century bestiary says: “As men learnt little by little about the kinds of fishes they were given names often from their similarity to creatures on land such as frogs, calves, lions, blackbirds, and peacocks.” Indeed, if you scroll through the common names of the known
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