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The blue dragon: The marine mollusk that steals and multiplies the venom of the Portuguese man-o'-war
At barely three centimeters long, 'Glaucus atlanticus' devours lethal tentacles to store the venomous micro-harpoons of its prey inside its own tissues.
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The volcanic snail: the only animal on the planet that makes its own iron armor
In the abysses of the Indian Ocean, Chrysomallon squamiferum reinforces its shell and body with iron sulfides to resist crushing claws and boiling waters.
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Brunel's shield: The mollusk-inspired machine that made underground engineering possible
In the 19th century, observing a tiny naval wood-borer solved the greatest dilemma in tunneling.
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The geography cone snail: The marine mollusk that hunts by inducing an instant hypoglycemic coma
A reef predator that does not chase its prey: it disperses a chemical mist with the fastest insulin on Earth to freeze fish in the water.
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Elysia marginata: The sea slug that decapitates itself at will to regenerate a whole body
Faced with lethal internal parasites, this mollusk severs its own head and survives for weeks without a heart using stolen solar energy.
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Massive RNA editing in octopuses: the surprising genetic hack that defies evolution
While almost all animals rely on slow DNA mutations to adapt, cephalopods rewrite their proteins in real time.
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The blue dragon: The sea creature that steals the chemical weapons of the deadliest jellyfish
How a tiny shell-less mollusk consumes Portuguese man-of-war and stores their stinging cells intact to become more toxic than its prey.
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The iron-armored snail: The deep-sea creature that builds its shell with metal
In the depths of the Indian Ocean lives the only known animal capable of incorporating iron sulfide directly into its skeleton.
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The emerald sea slug: The mollusk that steals chloroplasts to live on sunlight
Discover how Elysia chlorotica blurs the line between the animal and plant kingdoms by photosynthesizing.
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The tree that breathes underwater: the ingenious survival of mangroves
Discover how these coastal engineers defy salinity and lack of oxygen to create vital ecosystems on the world's tropical coasts.
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