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What animal has a FAST FACTS An Australian A three-toed skink can produce Sandtiger shark pups fight

supersize brood? than 29,000 both eggs and live young in the each other for survival in the
ghost moth
can lay more
womb, using their embryonic
same brood. This is unusual,
teeth to kill and eat their
as most lizards do either one
siblings. Only one – the
eggs in one
or the other.
clutch, dropping
from each litter.
them while in strongest – is born
flight in a scatter-
bomb effect.

Ocean sunfish lay
The ocean millions of eggs, but the
sunfish lays eggs’ tiny size and the
fact that they are
the largest scattered in the sea
number of mean their chances of
Blue sharks have eggs of any survival are low.
some of the largest vertebrate.
litters of any animal,
but predators eat many
of the pups in infancy.

Hawksbill sea turtles
lay more eggs than
any other reptile, but
hatchlings risk their
lives to migrate
from nests in the
sand to the sea.

Blue shark Hawksbill turtle Ocean sunfish
135 pups per litter 242 eggs per clutch 300 million eggs per spawning

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