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  1. #1 - The killer whale has teeth. The other three whales have a special structure called baleen which helps them sift tiny organisms out of the water (This is sort of like draining the water out of pasta in a colonder).
  2. Sea animals with more than four arms or tentacles include; starfish, octopuses, squid, jellyfish and many more.
  3. Two types of fish that do not have scales include; lungfish, sturgeon, sculpins, some catfish, eels, swordfish, some mackerals, most tuna and some skates and rays.
  4. Sponges do not have a mouth. They have a hole called an osculum which lets out water and nutrients.
  5. They are all mammals except for # 3 which is a type of fish called the cod.
  6. The jellyfish.
  7. These calves are mammals and like all other mammals they receive nutrition from their mother's milk.
  8. They are at the end of their life and they die.
  9. Ducks eat insects, aquatic plants and small invertebrates.
  10. So they do not float away while asleep.