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Below 400 meters, food becomes extremely scarce in the ocean. This creates a very predatory environment as creatures must compete for food. Deep sea gigantism may be an evolutionary adaptation to eliminate predators. But it gets more interesting. Their large size means they have a very slow metabolism. That means they don’t actually need to […]

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Just like other living organisms, plants have found some pretty creative ways to defend themselves from those creatures that want to eat them. From homemade insect repellant to spikes, barbs, and bark, learn some of the ways that plants defend themselves.

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