What is the meanest animal in the ocean?

Box Jellyfish
This notoriously dangerous jellyfish often tops the list of the most dangerous sea creatures in the world. While it might not look threatening, its sting is life-threatening. The sting can result in death in less than five minutes.
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What is the meanest animal in the water?

The Most Dangerous Ocean Creatures
  • Box Jellyfish. A Box Jellyfish, seen from the safety of tempered aquarium glass. ...
  • Blue-Ringed Octopus. A Blue-Ringed Octopus in Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia. ...
  • Stingrays. ...
  • Beaked Sea Snake. ...
  • Crocodiles. ...
  • Great White Shark.
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What animal kills the most humans in the ocean?

The blue-ringed octopus' venom is 1,000 times more powerful than cyanide. This golf-ball sized powerhouse packs enough venom to kill 26 humans within minutes. It's no surprise that it's recognized as one of the most dangerous animals in the ocean.
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What is the deadliest ocean?

The Cretaceous ocean ranks as the most dangerous sea of all time due to the sheer number and ferocity of its marine predators.
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Which ocean is the warmest?

Looking at the entire oceans, however, the Pacific Ocean is by far the warmest overall ocean because it has about four times the intense sun-heated surface area in the tropics compared with the Atlantic Ocean.
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What dinosaurs lived in the ocean?

The most notable of these reptiles were the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and sea turtles. Although they lived at a similar time as dinosaurs, marine reptiles were not dinosaurs since they evolved from a different ancestor.
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What is the king of the ocean?

Killer Whales

When you think of top ocean predators, you probably think of sharks. Great white sharks, to be exact. But the true ruler of the sea is the killer whale. Killer whales are apex predators, which means they have no natural predators.
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What is the strongest animal?

1. Dung Beetle. A dung beetle is not only the world's strongest insect but also the strongest animal on the planet compared to body weight. They can pull 1,141 times their own body weight.
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What is the strongest animal in a fight?

It was originally published on January 1, 2018. In a battle royale for Most Powerful Animal, a red kangaroo might take the martial-arts belt, thanks to a bone-shattering kick that delivers 759 pounds of force. Evolution has nudged wild creatures to hone their blows, bites, and brute strength for survival.
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What is the strongest sea creature of all time?

- The Blue Whale is one of the largest, and "strongest" vertebrate animals of all time.
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What animal lives the longest?

The Greenland shark has the longest known life span of all vertebrates, estimated to be between 300 and 500 years. Found in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, the species can reach an astonishing 21 feet in length and mostly eats fish, but has been spotted hunting seals.
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Which animal is the smartest?

CHIMPANZEES. RECKONED to be the most-intelligent animals on the planet, chimps can manipulate the environment and their surroundings to help themselves and their community. They can work out how to use things as tools to get things done faster, and they have outsmarted people many a time.
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What animal kicks hardest?

Strongest Kick: Zebra – Kicks with About 3,000 Pounds of Force. Between the well-known force behind the kick of a red kangaroo and a giraffe, you might be surprised to read that the zebra beats them both. When threatened, an adult zebra can kill a fully grown male African lion with a single blow to the body.
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What animal has the strongest punch?

Mantis shrimp pack the strongest punch of any creature in the animal kingdom. Their club-like appendages accelerate faster than a bullet out of a gun and just one strike can knock the arm off a crab or break through a snail shell. These small but mighty crustaceans have been known to take on octopus and win.
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Which is the bravest animal in the world?

According to the Independent, honey badgers have been described in the Guinness Book of Records as the "most fearless animal in the world" and can even fight off much larger predators like lions and hyenas.
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What is the most powerful female animal?

1. Clownfish. Unfortunately, Nemo's mom and dad being the cute couple they were before she tragically died, is not scientifically accurate. Clownfish have a strict hierarchal social structure with the largest, most aggressive female acting as the highest authority.
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Can you buy ocean?

“Property law states that territorial waters belong to the country and cannot be sold or bought.
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Who is the Queen of ocean?

Marine biologists have discovered an enormous great white shark they're calling the "queen of the ocean" off the coast of Nova Scotia. The battle-scarred shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is 17 feet (5 meters) long and weighs in at 3,541 pounds (1,606 kilograms).
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What eats a shark?

Animals that eat sharks include orcas, other sharks, humans, and giant groupers. Sharks that eat other sharks include great white sharks, bull sharks, and tiger sharks.
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Are there real sea monsters?

Mythic Kraken

Hundreds of years ago, European sailors told of a sea monster called the kraken that could toss ships into the air with its many long arms. Today we know sea monsters aren't real--but a living sea animal, the giant squid, has 10 arms and can grow longer than a school bus.
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What's the scariest water dinosaur?

Here are 10 of the scariest prehistoric sea monsters to ever call the ocean home in prehistory.
  • Megalodon. ...
  • Liopleurodon. ...
  • Basilosaurus. ...
  • Jaekelopterus rhenaniae. ...
  • Mauisaurus. ...
  • Dunkleosteus. ...
  • Kronosaurus. ...
  • Helicoprion.
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How old is the ocean?

The ocean formed billions of years ago.

At this time, about 3.8 billion years ago, the water condensed into rain which filled the basins that we now know as our world ocean.
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What is the stupidest animal?

List of the Dumbest Animals in the World
  • Panda Bear.
  • Turkey.
  • Jerboa.
  • Goblin Shark.
  • Sloth.
  • Koala.
  • Kakapo.
  • Cane Toads.
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What animal would beat all others in a fight?

The absolute unbeatable beast who took home the title for best fighter: the elephant. With a 74% win rate, it just eked out a win over the rhinoceros, who also received a 74% win rate. (Just a few extra tenths of a percent gave the elephant the top spot.)
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Which animal is the king of the jungle?

The lion is a magnificent and respectable animal. The male lion is the animal known as the king of the Jungle, not because it is the strongest, but rather because it possesses kingship and leadership qualities that tigers have not.
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