Nudibranchs: Beautiful But Deadly!
People who say this don't mean that if you eat a carrot, you
will have carrots growing out of your skin. But the little
creatures called nudibranchs seem to have taken the
expression seriously. When a nudibranch eats a poisonous
sponge or a mouthful of sea anemone stingers, something
quite like this does happen. Instead of getting sick or
dying, the nudibranch safely stores these poisons in its own
body. Then if another animal tries to eat the nudibranch,
that animal will get a mouthful of sponge poison or anemone
stingers.
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