Aquatic Animals Postcards

Siphonophorae by Ernst Haeckel
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Postmarked: Northern Virginia; March 2025

A curious Pacific Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi, peeks its head through pieces of glacial ice in Northwestern Fjord, Kenai Fjords National Park.
Postcrossing: USA; 31 days; 3,347 miles
Postmarked: May - June 2025

Lost in the Sea
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Postmarked: 2024

Baltic Sea seals
Postcrossing: Germany; 22 days; 4,301 miles
Postmarked: May - June 2024

How do otters keep in touch? (Answer: they use shell-phones!)
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Postmarked: Denver, Colorado; March 2025

California sea otter in Monterey Bay
A California sea otter is one of the thousands of fascinating species of wildlife you'll find in Monterey Bay
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Jellyfish
Postcrossing: Germany; 19 days; 3,992 miles
Postmarked: February - March 2024

FUN FACTS: Jellyfish have no brain, heart, bones, or eyes. They are made up of a smooth, bag-like body and tentacles armed with tiny, stinging cells.
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Postmarked: Hopkins, Minnesota; July 2024

Shark! Who goes there?
From Have a Little Pun: 30 Postcards by Frida Clements, 2018
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Postmarked: San Antonio, Texas; February 2025

SHARKS TEETH AND JAW
The jawbone in the center is from the Bull Shark that was from 12-22 feet long. The darker teeth along the top are fossilized and are between 15-25 million years old! The white teeth are from recent "living" sharks."

Top to bottom, from left: Epaulette shark; great white shark; cookiecutter shark; common thresher shark; basking shark; tasselled wobbegong; oceanic whitetip sharp
Postcrossing: France; 12 days; 4,053 miles
Postmarked: May 2024

Sharks constantly grow new teeth. (up to 30,000 in a lifetime)
Shark moms lose their appetite before giving birth so they won't be tempted to eat their own babies!
Shark. Class: Chondrichthyes. Orders: Carcharhiniforemes, Heterodontiformes, Hexanchiformes, Lamniformes, Orectolobiformes, Pristiophoriformes, Squaliformes, and Squatiniformes
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Postmarked: Woodridge, Illinois; September 2024

Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus
Clever and curious, these "smiling" mammals like to cavort in the bow waves of ships or large whales, making high jumps and smacking the water with their wide tail fins. They usually form schools with other dolphins and sometimes even accept sharks or turtles into their swimming classes.
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Postmarked: Minneapolis, Minnesota; May 2024

Harbour Porpoise - Phocoena phocoena
Schweinsal | Marsvin | Bruinvis
Wadden Sea World Heritage
The Wadden Sea is the largest tidal flats system in the world, where natural processes proceed largely undisturbed. It stretches over 500 km along the coast of Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands. The Wadden Sea is extraordinarily rich imn species and well protected internationally.
Website
Postcrossing: Germany; 11 days; 4,005 miles
Postmarked:February - March 2024

WASHINGTON
Orca sightings are most frequent between May and October when transient pods join those that reside in Puget Sound year-round.
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Postmarked: San Diego, California; July 2024

Charlotte Linton, Whale, 2012
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Postmarked: May 2024

Humpback whales
Postcrossing: Sweden; 22 days; 4,045 miles
Postmarked: May - June 2024

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Postmarked: Seattle, Washington; August 2024

Santa Cruz, California - Octopus Mosaic
From a friend: San Jose, California; January 2021

from Animals, Animals (1989), by Eric Carle
Postcrossing: USA; 9 days; 333 miles
Postmarked: Charlotte, North Carolina; March - April 2025