Alligators are full of surprises, but a closer inspection of their heads has revealed the predators have been hiding what amounts to an Aquaman-style superpower.

“New research shows that alligators … can hear underwater,” the University of Georgia’s Coastal Ecology Lab reported in a Jan. 15 Facebook post highlighting the study.

“The alligator can tune their hearing to land or water by adjusting how tight the tympanic membrane is stretched.

Moreover, they believe that this is part of an alligator’s submergence reflex and that it occurs automatically when an alligator goes underwater.”

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This is not to say American alligators hear as well underwater as they do on land, concluded researchers with A.T. Still University’s Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Missouri.

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