NATIONAL

GEOGRAPHIC
Ocean LOOK&LEARN
Creatures
A parrotfish changes color as it grows older.
Can you point to the blue-and-pink fish?

baby parrotfish

adult parrotfish
Parrotfish live in the ocean. Lots of other kinds of fish
live there, too.

GUESS WHAT?
 Fish breathe underwater. They do not breathe air the
way that
you do.
Seahorses are funny-looking fish. Their heads look
like horses' heads.
How many seahorses do you see?
Seahorses hold onto plants with their tails.
They let go when they want to swim away.

GUESS WHAT?

A father seahorse has a pouch on his tummy to hold

his babies.
There are seven kinds of sea turtles.

olive ridley
leatherback
green
hawksbill
Kemp's ridley
flatback

loggerhead
A sea turtle uses its flippers to swim through the
ocean.

GUESS WHAT?

Baby sea turtles hatch from eggs.

This sea star has five arms. Can you count them?

arm

Sea stars live on the bottom of the ocean. They use

their arms to walk.
GUESS WHAT?
 Some kinds of sea stars have more than five
arms!
A humpback whale is as big as a school bus.

STOP

STOP)
Humpback whales sometimes leap out of the ocean.
When they fall back in, they make a big splash!

GUESS WHAT?

Humpback whales do not have teeth

Can you match each of the sea creatures to its
name?
parrotfish

seahorse

sea turtle

sea star

humpback whale