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An Eight-Armed Cuttlefish or Octopus Attacking a Small Crab

An Eight-Armed Cuttlefish or Octopus Attacking a Small Crab.jpg Skeleton of an Extinct Flightless Toothed Bird, HesperornisThumbnailsSurinam Toad (Pipa Americana) with Young Ones Hatching out of Little Pockets on her BackSkeleton of an Extinct Flightless Toothed Bird, HesperornisThumbnailsSurinam Toad (Pipa Americana) with Young Ones Hatching out of Little Pockets on her BackSkeleton of an Extinct Flightless Toothed Bird, HesperornisThumbnailsSurinam Toad (Pipa Americana) with Young Ones Hatching out of Little Pockets on her BackSkeleton of an Extinct Flightless Toothed Bird, HesperornisThumbnailsSurinam Toad (Pipa Americana) with Young Ones Hatching out of Little Pockets on her BackSkeleton of an Extinct Flightless Toothed Bird, HesperornisThumbnailsSurinam Toad (Pipa Americana) with Young Ones Hatching out of Little Pockets on her BackSkeleton of an Extinct Flightless Toothed Bird, HesperornisThumbnailsSurinam Toad (Pipa Americana) with Young Ones Hatching out of Little Pockets on her Back

These molluscs are particularly fond of crustaceans, which they crunch with their parrot's beak-like jaws. Their salivary juice has a paralysing effect on their prey. To one side, below the eye, may be seen the funnel through which water is very forcibly ejected in the process of locomotion.