• What is a mermaid’s purse?
  Dogfish are small sharks. The tough case, in which a baby dogfish ...

• What sleeps in a duvet of seaweed?
  The sea otter makes its home among the kelp weed beds, of the eastern ...

• Which fish has devil’s horns?
  The manta ray or devilfish has two fins that curve forward from its ...

• What eats its lunch in a bubble?
  Humpback whales feed on small fish and krill floating near the sea ...

• Which white whale ate Captain Ahab’s leg?
  Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick, tell the story of Captain ...

• Are there sea monsters in Massachusetts?
  Early American settlers lived in fear of a huge sea serpent that was ...

• Which nymph ate sailors?
  An ancient Greek legend tells of a beautiful nymph, called Scylla, ...

• Who survived being eaten by a whale?
  According to the Bible's Old Testament, a man called Jonah was ...

• What fish carries the “sword of the sea”?
  The killer whale has a tall, thin back fin 6.5 feet (2 m) long, that ...

• Do unicorns live in the sea?
  Narwhals are small whales that swim in icy Arctic waters. Male ...