Whales are not fish; they are the biggest sea animals on our planet.
They can be found in all the oceans.
The word ‘whale’ comes from the Greek language and is translated as a sea monster.
They live about 30 to 50 years and some of them even more than that.
There are different kinds of whales: some of them are very big. Blue whales, for example, are about 30 metres long and can weigh up to 150 tons. Other kinds are about 5 metres long and weigh about 4 tons.
The can dive as deep as 1 kilometer, not more.
They can swim under water from 10 up to 40 minutes, and then they must come to the surface of the water to breathe.
Whales can develop speed up to 20 and even 40 km/h. (kilometers per hour)
Some kinds of whales have teeth and one tooth weighs 1 kilogramme.
Whales feed on marine plankton, mollusks, fish, and krill. Some kinds eat sea animals: seals, penguins, etc.
People kill whales for their fat and whalebone. That's all for now.
We can agree or disagree with these statements (better to disagree, because scientific books and magazines have more information than newspapers), but we'll have to say that newspapers help us in many ways. There are a lot of different kinds of newspapers in our country. One can buy them practically everywhere. It is impossible to read all the newspapers and magazines. Everyone has favourite ones.
My favourite newspaper is "". We can read almost about everything in this newspaper. There are articles dealing with home and abroad news, sport events, life of favourite actors and singers and even the weather. We can find many interesting things there. We can read some useful pieces of advice, some stories about our life, and so on. There are puzzles, songs and even anecdotes there. "Komsomolskaya Pravda" is one of the most interesting newspapers, to my mind.