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. Caterpillars of this genus have abandoned their plant based diet to become ambush predators.
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. This fossorial (burrowing) frog is the only living member of the family Rhinophrynidae. It spends most of its life burrowing, coming to the surface to breed, and its tongue is specialized for eating termites. It uses a spade on the inner edge of its foot for digging.
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. Discovered in 1983 by Danish Zoologist Reinhardt Kirstensen. Represented an entirely new phylum at the time. Resembles a pineapple and covered in rows of spines and scales. Lives in course sand 10 to 500 meters on ocean bottoms throughout the world.
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. Believed by some to be similar to the ancestral species of the Lake Victoria cichlids in that two radically different feeding types exist, and interbreed, throughout populations of this species. The papilliform (slender jaws and teeth) and the molariform (thick jaws and pebble shaped teeth).
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