Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

When predators are nearby, sand dollar larvae split--literally. The young marine invertebrates divide in half to become too small for hungry fish to detect. Researchers say this is the first time the strategy, known as cloning, has been documented as a form of defense.

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