So, for example, Daphnia lumholtzi grows head and tail spines to make eating them more difficult." Weiss and her colleagues have found the intermediary steps that make this transformation occur.

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Ancient sea scorpions, which once crawled the primordial seas, used serrated, slashing tail spines to overpower their prey, new research from the University of Alberta suggests.