Extinct Species
A prehistoric giant version of one of the world’s scariest looking pack hunting fish.
What was megapiranha paranensis, or simply the Mega Piranha?
A reef fish with a wild mane of venomous spines and is named after a big cat.
What is the lionfish?
The largest predatory fish alive on earth today, named in part for its white underbelly.
What is the Great White Shark?
Small pack-hunting fish with sharp teeth, found mainly in rivers in various places. They swarm around their prey and together can devour much larger creatures than they are, including, on occasion, humans.
What is a Piranha?
The method that Stingrays use to protect themselves.
What is burying itself in the sand?
One of the largest armored fish, with possibly the most powerful bite of any fish, this prehistoric monster was occasionally referred to as the Tyrannosaurus of the seas.
What was Dunkleosteus?
Some types of predatory fish characterized by long bills, or rostra, and by their large size. (Double points if you name two of the types that I mention in the answer.)
What are billfish?
Some types include Swordfish, Marlin, and Sailfish.
A deep-dwelling creature that can grow up to 43 feet long, has eyes the size of frisbees, and hundreds of sharp-toothed suction cups on its two feeding tentacles.
What is the giant squid?
A small reef fish that can swell itself up like a balloon, extending poisonous spikes all over its body. The most poisonous of its kind.
What is the Tiger Pufferfish?
Which is typically more aggressive and as a result considered more dangerous: Alligator or Crocodile?
The Crocodile.
The largest shark ever to have lived, which grew up to 59 feet feet in length.
What is the Megalodon?
This deadly fish belongs to a species known as a knifefish and is closely related to catfish and carp. It can generate up to 800 volts of electricity.
What is the electric eel?
This armored giant is one of the of the largest freshwater fish in North America, it has existed for over 100 million years and closely resembles one of the largest aquatic reptiles.
What is the Alligator Gar?
This small invertebrate, little larger than your hand, has a sting that can on occasion kill a human in around three minutes and a name that refers to a cube-shaped container.
What is the Box Jellyfish?
The fastest fish in the world (Can reach speeds of up to 70mph).
What is the Sailfish?
A prehistoric shark with teeth shaped and arranged like a circular saw blade.
What is Helicoprion?
(You get half the points if you called it the Buzzsaw Killer or something simila)
The way that a Blue-Ringed Octopus envenomates a human.
What is a small, often painless bite?
The three types of big sharks most likely to attack humans.
What are the Bull Shark, the Great White Shark, and the Tiger Shark?
A genus of venomous elapid sea snakes that with one bite can deliver ten times the venom needed to kill a human.
What are Sea Kraits?
The approximate number of unprovoked attacks from the Bull Shark. (Guess within 25)
What is 69 recorded attacks?
The biggest fish ever to have lived.
What is Leedsichthys Problematicus? (Sorry, I couldn’t find a shorter name, you can have 1 point if you said “the big fish” or something similar)
The technical term for a Sawfish’s long, flattened nose extension that gives it its name.
What is a Sawfish’s rostrum?
One of the largest species of catfish in the world, found in rivers in the Indian subcontinent, that can grow up to six and a half feet long and up to 230lbs.
What is the Goonch Catfish?
The habitat and continent where the Stonefish, the most venomous fish in the world, is often found.
What are coral reefs in Australia?
Where a Catfish’s venomous stingers are located.
What are the dorsal fin and the pectoral fins?