15 Interesting Ocean Animal Adaptations

Tiger pistol shrimp - a claw that generates a considerable shock wave

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Scale worm - Breathing structures on the appendages and 4-domain hemoglobin that better captures oxygen

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Asian sheepshead wrasse - Changes from female to male

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Fanfin seadevil - Changes in the immune system that allow sexual parasitism

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Flower urchin - Flexible spines with toxin as a defense mechanism

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Giant Sea Cucumber/California Sea cucumber - Expel their internal organs in defense

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Blue bottle, Indo – Pacific man o’ war - A gas-filled sack that allows it to float

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Yeti crab - Arms covered with hair, possibly for food farming

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Painted frogfish - An excellent camouflage

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Pineapple fish - Organ colonized with luminous bacteria

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Flamingo tongue sea snail - Highly tolerant of coral toxins

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The sea butterfly snail - Structures that help it to “fly” in the water

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Yellowtail fang blenny - Poisonous fangs for protection

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Blue Glaucus/Blue dragon - Stores the stinging cells of siphonophores it consumes

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The Pacific black dragon - Uses melanin pigment to blend into the darkness

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