Blue Whale by Georgie

Blue Whales

Classification

The Blue whale is a marine mammal and is the biggest thing ever to have lived.A Blue whale can fit seven people in its mouth.They belong to the Balaenoptere family and its babies can weigh more then a fully grown Elephant.

Description

They have a big tail to push themselves through the warm blue water.This large tailed sea creature has two huge fins to glide through the water and a blowhole for breathing. The baby blue whale is about seven meters long e.g (7000 cm). The males are about 22 meters long and the females are about 24 meters long. They come in colours such as tan,black,white,blue and grey.When a Blue whale is fully grown it can weigh up to 180 tons.

Location

These carnivores live in the pacific ocean.Its been around for 1000 of years and lives in the warmer parts of the open sea.

Dynamics

Without its tail it wouldn't be able to glide through the ocean.Blue Whales eat krill,plankton,shrimp,fish,squid,octopus,large,small crabs,various crustaceans and benthic animals. It catches its baleen in its giant mouth. The Blue whales food is found in different parts of the Pacific Ocean.This sea creature can attack anything except for a pack of hungry orcas but we still have more to learn.

Conclusion

These amazing mammals could live for ever if nobody is going to kill them otherwise they will be an extinction.

By Georgie

The Common Octopus

The Common Octopus

Classification
The common octopus is a mammal which looks after her eggs by hanging up it's arms so no predators can steal the eggs.This octopus family is the common octopus family.A common octopus can squirt out black ink into the blue water so it can slip away from it's predators.

Description
A octopus has strong white suckers that looks like white dots they use the suckers to cling onto things and attack predators.All octopuses have 8 coloured tentacles which help them creep and crawl if  and need to.An octopus also has it's mouth under it's 8 coloured tentacles with white dot suckers and also has 2 oval shaped eyes. 

Location
A common octopus and other octopus live in oceans all over the world and sometimes they come onto land and rocks but not very often.Octopuses live in the ocean because it's food is there and because it's the octopuses home.

Dynamics
A common octopus searches for it's prey so it can eat and protect her eggs from any dangerous predators by hanging up her arms.An octopus moves around by squirting out water from it's funnel near the eye.Also because they have no bones they can squeeze into small places like holes,cracks under rocks, under the sea and on land because they have no bones and to hide from its predators.An octopuses meal is crabs,shrimps and tiny eels.A common octopus catches it's prey by sucking it up in its mouth which is at the bottom of the octopus.An octopus finds it's food in the ocean.A common octopuses eggs hatch after four to six weeks. A common octopus is a mammal and change colour with a cemacal

Colossal Squid by Phoenix

Classification
A Colossal Squid is a omnivore the colossal squid also a giant squid.

Description
This sea creature has 2 large eyes to see in the dark and it has a brain! It has 90cm tentacles and it has rotating hooks  on its tentacles.

Location
The colossal squid lives in Atlantic oceans and North oceans.

Dynamics
The Colossal Squid it moves around by sucking up water through its funnel. This creature eats tooth-fish. It lives for up two years and there are not many around.

Conclusion:
This sea creature is very rare.

By Phoenix 

Blue whale by Charli

BLUE WHALE

Classification
A blue whale is a mammal. This sea creature belong's to the baleen family and the female whale is longer than the males.
Not like all sea creatures a blue whale weighs 150 tonnes.A blue whale normally swim's in group's or alone or in pairs.

Description
A blue whale has fluke eyes and a blow hole.This sea creature is 90 feet long. Not like all whales a blue whale has two blow holes for breathing out of.

Location
A blue whale lives in all of the Seas around the world.
This sea creature is the largest creature ever to have lived on earth.The blue whale lives in Arctic and the North Pole.

Dynamics-what it does
Blue whales spend most of their summers feeding in polar waters.Not like all sea creatures a blue whale goes 32 kilometres an hour. When the blue whale brings it's head out of the water to look around this is called spy hopping. Also when they bang their tails on the high surface of the water this is called lob tailing.It uses its tail to move around

Dynamics- Diet
A Blue whale eats Krill,Plankton,Shrimp,fish,Squid,Octopus,Larvae,small crab,various and crustaceans. Not like all sea creatures a blue whale catches it's food through its baleen. They find there food in the warm water of the Pacific Ocean.

Dynamic-Life cycle
A blue whale lives around 80 to 90 years old.

Conclusion
Blue Whales are amazing creatures and they are the largest mammal in the world.

By Charli

Dolphins by Zenah

Dolphins 

Classification
Dolphins are mammals. They belong to the dolphin family. Dolphins can grow up to more than 406 pounds. 

Description
Dolphins have up to one hundred teeth to catch their food. They have fins and a tail so they can swim. Dolphins have a dorsal fin on their back so it can stop it from rolling. They have a blow hole on their head so they can breathe. 

Location
Dolphins live in New Zealand in the coastal waters. They like to live in warm waters.

Dynamics
They like to jump and play. Dolphins can stand on their tails. Dolphins like to play by jumping in the  air. Dolphins dive down deep to catch fish. They work as a team to find their food. Dolphins can live for up to forty years. Dolphin like to live in groups called pods.  They can swim very fast in the waters and they can dive very deep. They breathe air through their blowhole.  

Conclusions
Dolphins are intelligent creatures.

By Zenah.

Hector dolphins by Josh

Classification
One of the rarest dolphins in the world is the hector dolphin.

The name of this species is for Sir james hector the scientist that was first to really examine them.

Description
It is also classified as one of the smallest marine dolphins.

The body is of this dolphin is torpedo shaped and a short body that is very stocky. They are light grey on the body and white cream on the belly. 

Location
Hector dolphins are found only in the inshore waters of Aotearoa new Zealand.Hector dolphins are also found around the coast of the south island but the distrbution
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hector dolpins by Jamila

Dolphin                                                                         

Classification

The hector dolphin is a mammal. This sea creature belongs  to the dolphin family and lives in only New Zealand. Some dolphins are smaller than a person some are bigger the than a bus. Dolphin's have up 100 teeth. 

Description

Hector Dolphin females have a longer belly. Hector dolphins are the smallest dolphins in the world and they are the only dolphins that have a rounded black dorsal fin. This dorsal fin helps them to balance. These dolphins are grey.

Location

This dolphin lives only in the ocean around New Zealand and in coastal waters.

Dynamics

This sea creature  swims in groups and speaks to each other by making a clicking noise. hector dolphins drink milk  
they eat fish , squid and shrimp. Dolphin's eat there food