Choose the least dangerous animal in the following list: great white shark, seahorse, vampire squid. If you picked seahorse, you're dead wrong. According to findings recently published in the journal of Nature Communications, the seahorse is one of the ocean's deadliest assassins, by some measures even deadlier than the shark. (Despite its fearsome name, the vampire squid doesn't hunt live prey). While a great white's successful kill rate hovers around 48 percent, the seahorse boasts a 90 percent success rate, mainly, researchers say, because of its oddly shaped head. A seahorse head moves through the water in near "hydrodynamic silence," meaning it barely disturbs the surrounding water and...
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