Amazing Facts About Fish



  • There's a species of fish called "Slippery Dick".
  • Some Fish, like the Triggerfish, can swim backward.
  • Most brands of lipstick contain fish scales.
  • Many Fish can taste without even opening their mouths.
  • Herrings communicate through farts.
  • Goldfish can't close their eyes as they have no eyelids.
  • Many fish species are known to change sex during the course of their lives.
  • Sharks kill 12 people per year while people kill 11,417 sharks per hour.
  • Goldfish can see infrared radiation that is invisible to us.
  • There's a shark in Greenland that eats polar bears and can live up to 200 years.
  • One Puffer Fish contains enough poison to kill 30 people.
  • If you keep a goldfish in a dark room, it will lose its color.
  • 80% of the biomass of fish in the world's oceans has been lost in the past 100 years.
  • Thousands of marine creatures die by mistakenly swallowing plastic bags that resemble jellyfish.
  • Starfish don't have brains. Special cells on their skin gather information about their surroundings.
  • There is a starfish with 40 arms.
  • Fish can drown in water.
  • The Sea Anemone looks like a flower, but it's actually a carnivorous animal that eats small fish and shrimp.
  • There is a Jellyfish that could be immortal.
  • Starfish do not have blood. Their blood is actually filtered sea water.
  • "Rain of fish" is an annual weather event in which hundreds of fish rain from the sky onto the city Yoro in Honduras.
  • Starfish can re-grow their arms. In fact, a single arm can regenerate a whole body.
  • Fish in polluted lakes lose their sense of smell.
  • Goldfish can distinguish the music of one composer from another.
  • Goldfish can distinguish the music of one composer from another.
  • A 10-Year-Old Goldfish Had a 45-Minute Surgery To Remove A Tumor in 2014.
  • When Anglerfish mate, they melt into each other and share their bodies forever.
  • About a third of male fish in British rivers are changing sex due to pollution, especially from contraceptive pills, a research found.
  • A sardine is not a species of fish, but a name that can apply to many small varieties of pickled fish, including herring and pilchard.
  • A robotic fish was accepted by other fish and became their leader during an experiment 
  • by NYU.
  • The goliath tigerfish is a fish that eats small crocodiles.
  • A koi fish named "Hanako" lived for 225 years.
  • The Salema Porgy is a species of fish that can cause hallucinations when eaten. In Ancient Rome it was consumed as a recreational drug.
  • Fossil evidence suggests that fish have been on Earth for about 530 million years.
  • The opah, or "moonfish", is the only known fully warm-blooded fish.
  • Goldfish don't have stomachs and should therefore be fed easily digestible food in lots of small feeding sessions.
  • The toxin in puffer fish is 1200 times deadlier than cyanide.
  • In three decades, the world's oceans will contain more discarded plastic than fish when measured by weight, researchers say.
  • Around 10% of the world's total fish species can be found just within the Great Barrier Reef.
  • Over 40,000 plant species, 2,200 fishes, 1,200 birds, 420 mammals, 420 amphibians, and 370 reptiles have been scientifically classified in the Amazon region.
  • Jellyfish are the ocean's most efficient swimmers, consuming 48% less oxygen than any 
  • other swimming animal.
  • In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.
  • Some offshore dolphins were found with deep-sea fishes in their stomachs. This evidence suggests that offshore dolphins may dive to more than 500 m (1,600 ft).
  • Global unemployment increased from 170 million in 2007 to nearly 202 million in 2012.
  • A fish discovered in Australia in 2015 was named ‘Blue Bastard'.
  • Some piranhas are cannibals.
  • Piranhas only attack you if you mess with them or their eggs.
  • Fish can see 70 times further in air than in water.
  • The Climbing gourami is a fish that has the ability to climb out of water, breathe oxygen, and even walk for short distances.
  • Older fish live longer if fed the faeces of younger fish.
  • The eyes of the celestial eye goldfish are bigger than its stomach.
  • 85% of Vakkaru Island in the Maldives is made up of fish faeces.
  • The blobfish is actually a normal looking fish, it just decompresses when you take it out of extreme depths.

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