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The cookie-cutter shark removes perfectly circular chunks from its prey.

This small shark feeds by attaching its suction-cup-like lips to larger animals and rotating to remove a plug of flesh. Its lower teeth are connected and act like a saw blade. The resulting wounds are so precise they were once mistaken for machine damage to submarine cables.

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Decorator crabs accessorize themselves with living creatures.

These crabs actively collect and attach living organisms like sponges, algae, and anemones to their shells for camouflage....

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Horned lizards can shoot blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism.

When threatened, these lizards can increase blood pressure in their head, rupturing small vessels around their eyelids and...

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Giant pandas have a thumb-like appendage that’s actually a modified wrist bone.

Pandas have evolved an extra 'thumb' from their wrist bone to help them grip bamboo. This unique adaptation...

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