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| 41 | 44 | The six View more quotes about powerful">powerful appendages attached to that long, narrow body are flippered, not clawed. |
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| 41 | 41 | See the width of the head, the jaws". |
| 41 | 42 | The sea sleen is an unusual animal, presumably related somehow to the varieties of land sleen. |
| 41 | 43 | Its body is much narrower, and the head is narrow and knifelike. |
| 41 | 44 | The six powerful appendages attached to that long, narrow body are flippered, not clawed. |
| 41 | 45 | It is not fully clear whether the sea sleen is a marine adaptation of the sleen or a similar but independently evolved animal. |
| 41 | 46 | Its body is snakelike, and it approaches its prey silently, gliding, usually from the rear right or left, and propels itself, when making its strike, by the sudden lashing of its tail. |
| 41 | 47 | It is the fastest creature in the sea. |