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Sea animals are very helpful to people. They are also unique in their own ways. The world would be completely different without sea animals. My experience of sea animals was when I went to the National Aquarium in Baltimore. In the aquarium, I saw many fish that can do cool tricks and live in interesting habitats. One thing I learned about stingray fish is that the eat shrimp and other small fishes. Also, the aquarium contained many other animals such as monkeys, snakes, sloths, and more. Marine Mammals Marine mammals are a very diverse group. There are very diverse because of their shape, size, color and even the way they eat. Sea mammals are such a big group that they have only 120 species under the sea right now. Marine mammals evolved from their land dwelling ancestors. This means that all the marine mammals that we have now came from land mammals. Since they evolved from land dwellers, they got some of its traits or features. Marine mammals are much endangered. The main reason why marine mammals are endangered is because of their treasure full sources. For example, one reason why human kill marine mammals is because of their blubber, meat, or ivory. Unique Marines In general, one way how marine mammals are unique is that the biggest animal in the world is a marine mammal. The biggest animal is the blue whale. The blue whale is a marine mammal and is very big. Whales are unique because of the way they sleep. It is interesting how they rest. Whales can divide portions of their brain and make one of them sleep while the others are functioning. Then the whale makes another portion sleep while the others work. By the end of the day, each portion has gotten a required amount of rest. Dolphins are unique because of their super hearing. Dolphins are so amazing that they can go to an exact place using only their ears. There hearing is so splendid that they

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