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Two cartoon characters looking up with open mouths. Caption: (Moki) It's not only a big fish; it's also sleepy too.

A warthog with long tusks curving towards its body and leathery skin covered in mud. Caption: we can see that each has a beauty all its own.

Digital illustration of a gray shark swimming through the ocean directly at us, teeth bared. Text reads, “Sharks.”

Deep in the ocean, we see a shark with sharp teeth swimming through the waters.

Still image from: Animal DNA: Fish

A woman with a painting pallet and a paintbrush. On her painting there are two clown fish. Spanish captions.

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: Meet the Air-Breathing Fish With Poisonous Eggs

Still image from: Bizarre Beasts: The Bizarre Beast With Clear Blood

Close up of an anglerfish on the ocean floor with a flat belly, an ovoid, spiny body, and a rod protruding from its head. Caption: distinguished by the rod protruding from its head

Mass of twisting, turning arms with tiny sharp hooks. Caption: Basket stars are able to grow their limbs back

Large, light colored bathysaurus swimming along the bottom of the ocean. Caption Indonesian waters. Caption: (male narrator) This creature was found 6900 feet deep in the ocean.

A close up of a fish against a dark backdrop. Closely set fins and spots on face. Caption: Its skeleton is made of cartilage.

A hammerhead shark, seen from below. Caption: (narrator) Bull sharks, tiger sharks, and hammerheads.

Two people standing next to a long, rectangular indoor pool full of small fish. In the background there are many other pools. Caption: They'll be about two years old when we release them

Still image from: Deadly Predators: Sharks

Still image from: Deadly Predators: Wild and Weird

Text reads, "Fish" over an illustration of several fish in various sizes and shapes.

Close up of several small orange fish swimming in the water. Caption: The most well known group of fresh water tropical fish

A school of small thin fish swimming in the water. Caption: Farmers raise fin fish using a variety of methods,

A school of small fish swim underwater through plant life. Caption: Fish live in oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams,

Father and son float in a peaceful lake, fishing together in a canoe.

A very large fish swims in the water with a school of smaller fish in the background. Caption: These gentle giants are goliath grouper --

Aerial closeup of a hand using a black permanent marker to draw a side view of a cartoon fish on white paper.

Still image from: Human Elements: Balancing Our Catch

Split screen with closeup of a brook trout swimming in water on the left and a sturgeon swimming in water on the right.

Color illustration of pattern of yellow fish attached to hooks alternating with gray fish swimming in water. Dashed vertical lines split image into fourths. Title bar across top reads, "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter."

3 quarter view of a girl and a boy wearing wide-brimmed hats and neckerchiefs. Girl holds out a fishing pole over a lake surrounded by vegetation.

Digital illustration. 2 silhouetted figures stand on a boat and dip nets in water as 2 fish swim toward them. 2 poles extend from boat and dangle forked appendages into water.

Closeup of fish caught with hook in bubbling green water.

Two fish swim in a tank.

Closeup of a stingray with its fin lifted as it glides towards a brick wall under water.

Rainbow trout is held up in front of us by a person crouching off to the side next to stream of water. Text reads, "Rainbow Trout."

We look up at the underside of a hammerhead shark with its open mouth baring sharp teeth as it swims in teal water.

Boat in the water. Caption: Lobster boats are real workhorses.

Lionfish swimming in the ocean surrounded by smaller fish and plants. Caption: Lionfish in the Atlantic are here to stay.

Two people with tools in their hands in a desert-like setting, digging in a mound of earth. Caption: Searching for these 112 to 98 million-year-old remains,

Still image from: Nick News: Oddly Satisfying, Rollercoasters, Sharks, Smithsonian, Friendship

School of golden-yellow to pinkish speckled fish. Caption: we increase the health and quantity of fish populations,

A gray eel. National Aquarium. Caption: an electric eel can generate enough current to stun its prey.

Brightly colored tropical fish. Caption: how they work together to execute underwater maneuvers,

Fish with a suction cup at the mouth area holding on to a nearly vertical surface. Caption: and suction cup that holds to the surface.

Large spotted shark with a white belly. Caption: The largest fish in the ocean is the whale shark.

Bright blue tropical fish swimming near colorful rocks. Spanish captions.

Still image from: SciShow Kids: All About Anglerfish

Still image from: SciShow Kids: Super Sharks

Person wearing rubber gloves and an apron cuts open a large fish. Caption: to cut the fish meat with the least amount of waste.

Still image from: Short Takes With Naturalist Rudy Mancke: Shark Tooth

Still image from: Super Animals: Super Sharks

People looking through a viewport in a large aquarium at jellyfish swimming in the water. Caption: (Dwayne) Many people have never seen a jellyfish.

A pencil sketch of a fish with wing like fins, and a tail. On screen text, Jenny Hanivers. Caption: and became known as Jenny Hannivers,

Small stingray with dye coloring parts of the internal structure. Caption: and use different stains to stain parts of the skeleton.

Person sitting in the bow of a canoe that is butted up against a riverbank. Dr. Lesley De Souza. Caption: She's a conversation scientist and ichthyologist.

Illustration of a fish with long, pointed fins. Cartilaginous Fish (thresher shark). Caption: those with skeletons of cartilage --

Person pointing to the fingernail on someone's hand. Spanish captions.

Cartoon of a person's face on a fish body. Caption: Eat and grow. Eat and grow.

Two almost identical fish. One is larger and has an extra fin on the bottom of its body. Below each fish is a strand of DNA with the same section highlighted. Caption: changes in form are ultimately due to changes in genes.

Blonde boy wearing an Aquarium Encounters T-shirt speaks to a girl turned toward him as they stand near a table that holds two large mason jars and a fishbowl.

Blonde boy wearing an Aquarium Encounters T-shirt speaks to a girl turned toward him as they stand near a table that holds two large mason jars and a fishbowl.

Cast-iron skillet on a wooden surface with a digital illustration of a brownish-green fish.

Cast-iron skillet on a wooden surface with a digital illustration of a brownish-green fish.

Digital road map showing the George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier State Park which connects a patch of land to Amelia Island State Park and travels across the Nassau Sound.

Digital road map showing the George Crady Bridge Fishing Pier State Park which connects a patch of land to Amelia Island State Park and travels across the Nassau Sound. The bridge and island are labeled in Spanish: "Puente George Crady Muelle Pesquero del Parque Estatal" and "Parque Estatal Amelia Island."

Children swimming in a spring up to their shoulders. The girl wears pink goggles pushed up on her forehead and a snorkel, and the boy holds an orange action camera.

Children swimming in a spring up to their shoulders. The girl wears pink goggles pushed up on her forehead and a snorkel and smiles at the boy, who talks to us while holding an orange action camera.

Several large fish swimming in the water, as seen from the deck of a ship. Caption: Three thousand bluefins are farmed here.

A person looking up at a pair of primates in the trees. Caption: That's why scientists are interested in studying them.

White fish with black spots and yellow and black fins swims near the ocean floor. Caption: It can be found in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Face of a brownish-green animal peeks out of a hollow rock. Caption: I think we can all agree that's one weird animal.

Roughly diamond shaped animal with fins in the front swims underwater. Manta Ray. Caption: They're the largest ray in the ocean,

Small fish swimming in the water. Spanish captions.

Large fish with a white underbelly and gray upper body. Caption: known as the underwater panda of China.

Person in a small wooden boat with a large fish across the width of the boat. Caption: It is a beast, and has been known to weigh over 600 pounds.

A flat, spotted fish blends in almost perfectly with the ocean floor. Caption: As a result, the flounder population is recovering.

Still image from: Xploration Awesome Planet: Predatory Myths

A shark jumps out of the water surface with prey in its mouth.

Still image from: Zebra Shark CT Scan

An illustration of a flying fish.

Cartoon of a goldfish swimming underwater next to a treasure chest.

An illustration of a piranha.

An illustration of a pigeon on the street.