The A to Z list
Animals that start with S
S is the second-largest letter here and the most varied. It holds the sperm whale, which has the largest brain of any animal that has ever lived and makes the loudest sound any animal makes, and the seahorse, where the male becomes pregnant. The starfish and the spider are here too, and neither is a fish or an insect.
13 animals in the library start with S, from the salamander to the swan. Most of them live in North America and Asia.
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Salamander
Caudata (order, about 800 species)
Lives 3-20 years; giant salamanders over 50
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Scorpion
Scorpiones (emperor scorpion: Pandinus imperator)
Lives 3-8 years; some species up to 25
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Sea Lion
Otariinae (subfamily, six species)
Lives 20-30 years
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Seahorse
Hippocampus (genus, about 45 species)
Lives 1-5 years
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Seal
Pinnipedia (harbor seal: Phoca vitulina)
Lives 20-30 years; some species 40
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Shark
Selachimorpha (superorder, over 500 species)
Lives 20-30 years; the Greenland shark may exceed 400
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Sheep
Ovis aries
Lives 10-12 years
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Sparrow
Passer domesticus (house sparrow); family Passeridae
Lives 3-5 years; ringed birds past 13
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Sperm Whale
Physeter macrocephalus
Lives 60-70 years, probably longer
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Spider
Araneae (garden orb-weaver: Araneus diadematus)
Lives under a year for most; tarantulas 20-30 years
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Squirrel
Sciuridae (family, about 280 species)
Lives 5-10 years in the wild; up to about 20 in captivity
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Starfish
Asteroidea (class, about 2,000 species)
Lives 5-10 years; some over 30
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Swan
Cygnus (mute swan: Cygnus olor)
Lives 10-20 years in the wild; over 25 recorded
No animals match those filters.