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LIFE SUPERNATURAL EXPLORING

STORIES 90 SENSES 162 THE DEEP 188

Living in the sea is challenging, Some sea creatures have secret The deep sea is the only place
so an animal needs to find the superpowers. Hammerheads and on Earth that remains largely
best way to survive. For krill sawsharks pick up electrical signals, unexplored. Travel from the
or sardines, there’s safety in while mantis shrimp can detect warm shallows of a coral reef
numbers against hungry fish. light that other animals cannot to the cold, dark bottom of the
More extreme strategies involve see. Sandtigers gang up on other ocean in a submersible to see
parrotfish covering themselves in fish and sevengill sharks sneak up what lies below the waves.
slime and sea cucumbers squirting on their victims, but torpedo rays
their insides at attackers. have a really nasty shock in store.
GLOSSARY 204
INDEX 206

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 208

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