Squids are amazing sea animals with soft bodies, ten arms, and three hearts. They can zoom through the water like rockets using jet power and hide from danger by changing their colors or shooting dark ink. [1, 2, 3]

Super Swimmers and Body Facts

• Ten arms: Squids have eight short arms and two longer arms called tentacles to catch food.

• Three hearts: They have three hearts to pump blood through their bodies.

• Jet power: Squids squirt water out of a special tube to zoom backward or forward very fast. [1, 2, 3]

Cool Squid Superpowers

• Color changing: They can change their skin color to match rocks or sand so enemies cannot see them.

• Inky cloud: When scared, they squirt dark ink to confuse predators and swim away safely.

• Giant eyes: Some squids have eyes as big as basketballs or dinner plates to help them see in the dark deep ocean. 

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The blue whale is the largest animal to ever live on Earth. It can grow up to 100 feet long (the size of three school buses) and weigh as much as 30 elephants. Even though they are huge, they eat tiny shrimp-like animals called krill. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Super Size Facts

• Heart: The size of a small car.

• Tongue: Weighs as much as a whole elephant.

• Blood Vessels: So wide that a small person could swim through them. [1, 2]

Diet and Eating

• Tiny Food: They eat tiny creatures called krill.

• Baleen: They have hair-like plates instead of teeth to trap food.

• Big Appetite: They eat up to four tons of krill every single day. [1, 2]

Ocean Life

• Loud Sounds: They make deep, rumbling calls that travel for hundreds of miles.

• Breathing Air: As mammals, they must come to the surface to breathe air through their blowhole.

• Baby Whales: A newborn baby calf is already 23 feet long at birth and drinks 50 gallons of milk a day

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