The Strangest Thing in the Sea: And Other Curious Creatures of the Deep

The Strangest Thing in the Sea: And Other Curious Creatures of the Deep — page 7
The sunfish's huge dorsal fin is often mistaken for a shark's fin Pieces of kelp forests sometimes break off and float out to sea These kelp paddies give creatures shade and landing pads in the open ocean They often become cleaning stations where sunfish come to have parasites bitten off by seagulls and cleaner fishes Females can lay an astonishing 300,000,000 eggs at once Once they hatch the tiny fry recently hatched fish look like floating stars 3 mm