The oarfish, Regalecus glesne, is the longest bony fish in the world. With its snakelike body, and bright red fin along its 50-foot length, horse like face and blue gills, it accounts for many sea-serpent sightings.

Fishfalls, or a rain of fish falling from the sky, have occurred fairly often throughout the world, mainly due to high winds or waterspouts that suck up fish & water and drop them miles away!

One study of a deep-sea community revealed 898 species from more than 100 families in an area only about half the size of a tennis court.

The world’s smallest marine fish is the carnivorous dwarf goby that lives in the Indo-Pacific, it grows to only a tiny length of 9mm.

Life began in the seas 3.1 billion to 3.4 billion years ago.

A cubic metre of estuary mud like you can see at the Humber has the energy equivalent to 13 Mars Bars, it is richer than the best agricultural land.