Sea Animals
This giant deep-sea shark species can live for over 400 years, making it the longest-living vertebrate known.
What is the Greenland shark?
This bird native to New Zealand is the only bird with nostrils located at the tip of its beak.
What is a kiwi?
This European country completely surrounds the microstates of both Vatican City and San Marino.
What is Italy?
This vegetable is a root in the parsley family and is often mistaken for a white carrot.
What is a parsnip?
This coastal city in San Luis Obispo County is known for its famous pier and clam chowder festival.
What is Pismo Beach?
This marine mammal uses echolocation to hunt squid in the deep ocean and has the largest brain of any animal.
What is a sperm whale?
This endangered Southeast Asian mammal is the only bear species that lives primarily in tropical forests and has a long tongue for extracting insects.
What is a Sun Bear?
This country has the most time zones in the world when its overseas territories are included.
What is France?
This vegetable, often used in Southern cooking, comes from the immature pods of the plant Abelmoschus esculentus.
What is okra?
This Sonoma County city shares its name with the Spanish word for “rooster.
What is Petaluma?
This marine mammal has the thickest fur of any animal, with up to one million hairs per square inch.
What is a sea otter?
This animal has the strongest bite force relative to size among land mammals and is known for cracking bones.
What is a spotted hyena?
This Southeast Asian country was formerly known as Siam until 1939.
What is Thailand?
This purple root vegetable is the key ingredient in the Eastern European soup borscht.
What is a beet?
This California city was once the capital of Alta California under Mexican rule before U.S. statehood.
What is Monterey?
This rare deep-sea fish, discovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa, was long thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs.
What is a coelacanth?
This Southeast Asian mammal is the only species in its order and is covered in protective keratin scales used for defense.
What is a pangolin?
This African country was formerly called Abyssinia.
What is Ethiopia?
This vegetable is actually the immature flower bud of a species of thistle.
What is an artichoke?
This Northern California city near Mount Shasta shares its name with a Shakespearean character from The Tempest.
What is Miranda?
This colorful crustacean has the most complex vision known in the animal kingdom, capable of detecting polarized light and up to 16 color channels.
What is a mantis shrimp?
This nocturnal primate from Madagascar is known for its long middle finger used to extract insects from tree bark.
What is an aye-aye?
This Central Asian country is the largest landlocked nation in the world.
What is Kazakhstan?
This vegetable variety of Cucurbita pepo is commonly harvested while immature and used in Mediterranean cuisine.
What is zucchini?
This inland empire city shares its name with a famous ballroom dance and a citrus fruit.
What is Pomona?