Animals

Birds

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Tufted Puffin

These birds appear to “fly” underwater!

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Common Murre

Common Murre

These diving birds are able to plunge up to 350–400 feet.

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Rhinoceros Auklet

They have a protruding white “horn” during breeding season!

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Black Oystercatcher

These birds break the shells of limpets and mussels with their beaks.

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Long-Billed Curlew

Their bills are perfect for finding crustaceans in rocky crevices.

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Pigeon Guillemot

Using its wings and feet, pigeon guillemots can hover underwater!

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Mammals

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Harbor Seals

These seals can remain underwater for close to 30 minutes!

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Northern fur seals

Male northern fur seals are up to six times larger than females.

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Sea otters

They bear the thickest fur of all mammals!

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River Otters

River otters are commonly seen in Puget Sound.

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Fish

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Big Skate

Breathe top to bottom!

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Dogfish

A shark that's also venomous!

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Puffers

Puffers

They rely on the ability to “puff up” as a defense mechanism.

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Rockfish

Some rockfish species can live to be well over 100 years old!

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Grunt sculpin

Their large heads represent over half of their total body length!

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Triggerfish

The strong teeth of triggerfish keep growing throughout their lives.

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Cephalopods

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Dwarf Cuttlefish

They can change their color, pattern and texture in the blink of an eye.

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Giant Pacific Octopus

These creatures have blue blood, eight arms and three hearts!

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Other Invertebrates

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Barnacles

These sedentary creatures lock onto (or into) objects and animals and in

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Tide pool ecosystems

Tide pool ecosystems

Tide pools are found on rocky beaches in the strip of land between high

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Purple shore crabs

These crabs feed on green algae, snail eggs, little crustaceans and more

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Corals

You can see both warm- and cold-water corals at the Seattle Aquarium.

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Hermit Crabs

Hermit Crabs

There are over 500 species of hermit crabs around the world.

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Moon Jelly

Moon Jelly

Jellies have been around for hundreds of millions of years!

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Plankton

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Plankton

Some of the world’s smallest living creatures!

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