Link: Pharyngeal Jaw--Awesome Adaptation

What do you do when you don't have hands to help you control your food while you eat?  Behold:

Link: Hagfish Slime--Awesome Adaptation

Worth watching, but they disabled embedding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcOqGV0Kcp0

Link: Worm Escape Inversion--Awesome Adaptation

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pokerchampdaniel/3136421527/

Link: Awesome Adaptation--Mammoth Anti-Freeze Blood

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8657464.stm

Awesome Adaptation--Black Skimmer Beak

A native water bird of Florida (my home state)...and most of North and South America.  Enjoy and admire the beauty not forgetting to imagine in your mind the slow, incremental steps that would have had to have led up to this point--first longer, then thinner, then 'experimentation' in dipping while flying, then all out specialization.

Awesome Adaptation--Howler Hyoid Bone

While the official title is debatable the accolade of "World's Loudest Animal" just may go to the Howler Monkey of Central and South America--can be heard three miles away in dense jungle.  Imagine yelling to a friend from that far away--can't even do that across a parking lot!  Here's how and here's what will blow your ever-loving mind.  What an awesome adaptation!  Take your time admiring how the hyoid bone has been modified and engorged in the Howler.

Now compare to the Howler's: