FunFacts

The egg casing for a skate is called a "mermaid's purse".

The Bottlenose dolphin can see something in front of it and something different behind it - at the same time! (I think some human mothers can do that too!!!)


Baby sea turtles are born with a baby tooth that
helps to rip open their shells. Then they lose it.

                                                     Female blue crabs have red fingernails!

Richmond Plantation was burned by General Sherman on his 'March to the Sea'. The property was later purchased by Henry Ford and the town was renamed Richmond Hill.

The horseshoe crab is not a crab at all
---it's related to spiders!


The brown pelican, which lives off the Georgia
                         coast, is the only dark pelican here and the only
                         pelican that dives from the air into the water to
                         get it's food.

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The coast of Georgia is only 100 miles long from the Savannah River to the St. Mary's River... and yet the Georgia coast has has a higher percentage of waterfront property than the states of Washington, Oregon and California combined