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Male dolphins are called bulls, female dolphins are called cows and baby dolphins are called calves.

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A dolphin's flipper is made up of five distinct bone structures, similar to that of a human hand.

Baleen whales don't have ears, they hear through the vibrations picked up by the bones in their skull.

The ocean sunfish can lay up to 300 million eggs at a time. Being the heaviest bony fish in the world, their weight may reach 2,200lbs (1,000kg).

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The blue whale is the loudest animal on earth. A blue whale call can travel hundreds of miles across the water, and it is louder than an F18 jet fighter.

Out of all creatures on Earth the Giant Squid has the largest eyes; one eye can be as big as 11 inches (28 cm) across.

Penguins can drink sea water.

Penguins can drink sea water. They have glands just above their eyes which remove salt from their blood and expel it out through their nose.

Dolphins sleep with only one side of their brain, keeping one eye open and one eye closed. They surface every 20 to 30 minutes to breathe, and they are never totally unconscious while sleeping.

The Pacific Ocean is the biggest ocean in the world, accounting for 32% of the world's total surface area. That's slightly more than all the land in the world combined.

The goldfish has been found to have a memory-span of at least 3 months. There have also been a few people who actually trained their goldfish to do tricks!

The Tennessee Aquarium is home to Electric Miguel, an electric eel with a Twitter account. He sends out tweets by generating high voltage electrical discharges.

The sailfish is the fastest fish in the world, capable of reaching speeds of 68 miles per hour (110 km/h).

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Octopuses don't have tentacles, they have eight arms. Arms are more versatile than tentacles and can perform much finer movements.

The fur of sea otters can have more than 650,000 strands of hair per square inch. It helps to keep them insulated while swimming in cold waters.

In Laguna, Brazil, dolphins help fishermen to catch fish. The dolphins round up the fish and signal the fishermen to cast their nets. More than 200 families rely on the daily catch.

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