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Aquatic Fox Evolution By: Turner Bowling, Sarah Bird, Isaac Shields, Shelby Threet The Aquatic fox evolved from the arctic fox to help it survive global warming. Since global warming is melting the glaciers, the arctic fox had to adapt to live in water. Over time it developed gills and Its main source of energy is fish that it catches with its teeth underwater. Some of the changes made to the arctic fox are a thick flat tail, very webbed feet, film over the eyes, and chemicals released out of their whiskers

Flat Tail This platypus-like tail helps the fox move faster as well as steer underwater. This is something that they didn't need on land and may have even slowed them down. Film eyes The eyes of the aquatic fox have a small layer of film over them to protect them from the water. More Webbed Feet Additional webbing between the feet helps the aquatic fox swim faster. This helps them both escape from predators and catch prey. How this works is the feet spread out when pushing back on the water. The webbing makes the feet have a larger area against the water. This pushes mor water, therefore, making them swim faster. Chemicals from whiskers Chemicals are released from the whiskers of the fox to attract fish. This helps since they are often still not fast enough to catch them. This is actually more like an odor of fish to help get the fish near the mouth of the fox. Once the fox eats fish, a small undigested mass of the fish is excreted through the whiskers of the fox.