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Lake Erie is home to one of the world's largest freshwater commercial fisheries. Lake Erie's fish populations are the most abundant of the Great Lakes, partially because of the lake's relatively mild temperatures and plentiful supply of plankton, which is the basic building block of the food chain. [41]
River dolphins are rather small, ranging in size from the 5-foot (1.5 m) long South Asian river dolphin to the 8-foot (2.4 m) and 220-pound (100 kg) Amazon river dolphin. They all have female-biased sexual dimorphism apart from Amazon river dolphin, with the females being larger than the males.
Iniidae is a family of river dolphins containing one living genus, Inia, and four extinct genera.The extant genus inhabits the river basins of South America, but the family formerly had a wider presence across the Atlantic Ocean.
Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes but bests its cousins in several other ways. Find out more about all the Great Lakes.
Fulk Lake Indiana USA: North America: Beast of 'Busco, Oscar the Turtle Giant Snapping Turtle 1898–1948 Lake Erie Ohio USA: North America: Bessie, South Bay Bessie Snake-like and 30 to 40 ft (9-12 m) long, at least a foot (30 cm) in diameter, with a grayish color. [4] Black River New York USA: North America: Black River Monster
In July 1979, a three-foot dogfish shark that lives only in saltwater was pulled out of Lake Erie, a freshwater body. The Erie-Times News reported the shark was dead and frozen before it was put ...
Marmontel said most of the dolphins that perished last year were in Lake Tefé, a 45-km-wide (27-mile) expanse of water where the dolphins like to be located, just off the Solimoes River. The lake ...
The following is a list of lakes in Ohio.According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, there are approximately 50,000 lakes and small ponds, with a total surface area of 200,000 acres, and among these there are 2,200 lakes of 5 acres (2.0 ha) or greater with a total surface area of 134,000 acres. [1]