aliens and other extraterrestrial beings, although some forms of life on Earth are stranger than humans might imagine from the strangeness of the inhabitants of distant worlds, so the French magazine L'Obs presents a series of 10 animals with strange powers, or at least unimaginable What it really is by its appearance.
In an article by Jean-Paul Fritz, the magazine gives a summary of these wonderful and at the same time exotic animals, which are realistic creatures that live in nature.
Regenerating salamander (Axolotl)
This small Mexican native animal that lives all its life in the water has a strange face with a hairy bump behind its head representing the gills, and most of the time it remains in the larval state, without transforming into its adult form, although this does not prevent it from reproducing.
This animal also has regenerative abilities that have caught the attention of the scientific community. It - says Emmanuel Cora Costa, a biologist at the University of La Plata (Universidad Nacional De La Plata) in Argentina - renews almost everything in its body; It rejuvenates the limbs, heart, lungs, jaw and eyes, even recreating part of his brain if damaged, all without scars.
“This animal regenerates every injured organ, if not fatal,” says Parker Flowers of Yale University, who is part of a team studying the salamander genome, and is therefore invaluable to researchers interested in the human body's ability to repair itself. Unfortunately, it is threatened with extinction in its natural environment.
The rodent that lives like an ant
Scientists call it "heterocyval", which means that its head is irregular in shape, but most people call it a "naked mole rat", because it is hairless, and it is almost deaf and blind, but it has some amazing characteristics, the most important of which is its way of life, It lives in colonies in tunnels, with a very strict social hierarchy and under the authority of the queen, which means that it is closer to the organization known to most insects.
The mole has a language or languages like chirping, and recent studies have shown that each colony has its own dialect, and the mother decides which language will be spoken in her colony.
And the mouse has another amazing feature. It is a cold-blooded mammal that does not feel most forms of pain. It is also able to survive in almost oxygen-free environments by "transforming into a plant", or more precisely by behaving in the same way that plants do. As explained by the team of Professor Thomas Park of the University of Illinois (University of Illinois).
What draws the attention of biologists and geneticists to this animal is its immunity against cancer, as researchers at Cambridge University discovered that these animals have the same susceptibility to cancer as other species, but the way their cells are organized in their bodies was a mechanism to resist this disease.
A bear cub on the moon
This animal was transferred to the International Space Station, and it was studied, and it is found all over the planet, and an Israeli probe containing a few thousand of it crashed on the surface of the moon in April 2019, and it is very likely that these creatures survived, even if in a state of hibernations
Scientists go far in search of aliens and other extraterrestrial beings, although some forms of life on Earth are stranger than humans might imagine from the strangeness of the inhabitants of distant worlds, so the French magazine L'Obs presents a series of 10 animals with strange powers Or, at least, it is impossible to imagine what it really is from its appearance.
In an article by Jean-Paul Fritz, the magazine gives a summary of these wonderful and at the same time exotic animals, which are realistic creatures that live in nature.
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The salamander regenerates every injured organ if the injury is not fatal (Shutterstock)
Regenerating salamander (Axolotl)
This small Mexican native animal that lives all its life in the water has a strange face with a hairy bump behind its head representing the gills, and most of the time it remains in the larval state, without transforming into its adult form, although this does not prevent it from reproducing.
This animal also has regenerative abilities that have caught the attention of the scientific community. It - says Emmanuel Cora Costa, a biologist at the University of La Plata (Universidad Nacional De La Plata) in Argentina - renews almost everything in its body; It rejuvenates the limbs, heart, lungs, jaw and eyes, even recreating part of his brain if damaged, all without scars.
“This animal regenerates every injured organ, if not fatal,” says Parker Flowers of Yale University, who is part of a team studying the salamander genome, and is therefore invaluable to researchers interested in the human body's ability to repair itself. Unfortunately, it is threatened with extinction in its natural environment.
The naked mole rat is a cold-blooded, furless mammal (Yurik Alert)
The rodent that lives like an ant
Scientists call it "heterocyval", which means that its head is irregular in shape, but most people call it a "naked mole rat", because it is hairless, and it is almost deaf and blind, but it has some amazing characteristics, the most important of which is its way of life, It lives in colonies in tunnels, with a very strict social hierarchy and under the authority of the queen, which means that it is closer to the organization known to most insects.
The mole has a language or languages like chirping, and recent studies have shown that each colony has its own dialect, and the mother decides which language will be spoken in her colony.
And the mouse has another amazing feature. It is a cold-blooded mammal that does not feel most forms of pain. It is also able to survive in almost oxygen-free environments by "transforming into a plant", or more precisely by behaving in the same way that plants do. As explained by the team of Professor Thomas Park of the University of Illinois (University of Illinois).
What draws the attention of biologists and geneticists to this animal is its immunity against cancer, as researchers at Cambridge University discovered that these animals have the same susceptibility to cancer as other species, but the way their cells are organized in their bodies was a mechanism to resist this disease.
In 2007, a water bear was sent on a scientific space experiment to the International Space Station (Shutterstock).
A bear cub on the moon
This animal was transferred to the International Space Station, and it was studied, and it is found all over the planet, and an Israeli probe containing a few thousand of it crashed on the surface of the moon in April 2019, and it is very likely that these creatures survived, even if in a state of hibernation.
Although microscopic, the teddy bear cub has tremendous abilities. It is a slow gaiter and can survive the vacuum of space, temperatures near absolute zero, boiling water, dangerous radiation and powerful effects such as those of a rifle bullet.
This organism can survive in hostile environments, as it hardens completely and then returns to life, but the only negative is that global warming will be harmful to it, as a group of scientists from the University of Copenhagen showed that water bears do not Likes high temperatures for long periods.
The blob..a memory without a brain
The blob occupies the second place of interest to humans after water bears, and it is not an animal, plant, bacteria, mold, or virus. From interconnected tubes that can span several meters, it has no organs, let alone a brain, and is nonetheless capable of learning and communicating.
The author wondered: How can memorization be done without neurons? But French researchers from the Center for Research on Animal Cognition explained in 2019 that "the blob learns to tolerate a substance by absorbing it," and a German team this year shed light on this mystery, saying, "The network structure of this organism can serve as a memory of the past," said the professor. Karen Alim, co-author of this study.
An animal awakens after 24,000 years
The writer said that a microscopic animal woke up from a hibernation that lasted 24,000 years, as these microbes were discovered in the permafrost in Siberia by a Russian team, who was able to determine the history of the frozen soil layer in which they were present, but this body is not a simple bacteria, but an animal Multicellular, and was able to reproduce by parthenogenesis.
And the Russian team pointed out that the study that it carried out constituted so far the strongest evidence that multicellular animals can withstand tens of thousands of years, in a state in which their metabolism almost completely stops.
Jellyfish live forever
The "immortal jellyfish" is known as the only known animal capable of returning to childhood. It starts with an egg, then a larva, then polyps, then moves to adulthood. It is a jellyfish that swims lazily in the water, but it can develop upside down, to return to the state of the appendages. The adenoids that give birth to a jellyfish are genetically identical to their predecessor, and thus begin to age again, in a process that makes them theoretically immortal.
A multicolored bird with an unpleasant odor
This bird, although not a cousin of the weasel, shares its scent characteristics with it. It is a beautiful, multi-colored bird with puffy plumage known for its foul odor about the size of a pheasant, and it feeds exclusively on leaves.
The hoatzin has a weak wing like chicken, and like cows, it has several pockets in the stomach, where digestion occurs slowly, and it is the rotting leaves in its digestive system that generate the smell that has earned it the nickname of a stinking bird, and it lives in the tropical forests of South America.
panda ant"
It is known by this name because it somewhat resembles a miniature panda that has an extra pair of legs, and those unfamiliar with the classification of insects may think it an ant, because the individuals "Espinola" (euspinolia) and its cousins from the "velvet ants" resemble ants, although they are the closest relatives of the wasp with That the females have no wings.
The panda ant lives in Chile, and it has a sting that it does not hesitate to use, and it lays its eggs among the larvae of bees and other wasp species, to feed on the larvae of their hosts.
Giant squid is a mythical beast
The giant squid is not completely gigantic, as the largest adult animal ever discovered weighs a ton, and its length is about 13 meters. It lives in deep depths, and feeds on fish and other squid. It was first seen alive in 2006.
Scientists were able to sequence the genome of the giant squid in early 2020, and it consists of 2.7 billion base pairs, or 90% of the size of the human genome, and the diameter of the eyes of this creature is 30 centimeters, which is the largest in the entire animal kingdom, but it does not live more than 5 years approx.
Sailing ergonauts.. mollusks of the year
The “Argonauts” mollusk has no special abilities other than its appearance, which is what won it the “Mollusk 2021” beauty contest, as a jury of specialists chose 5 contestants out of 120 nominations, and the online audience voted for the winner, a type of “Argonaute” that was announced in The first of last February.
The female of these mollusks has special arms resembling paddles and secretes a ceramic shell as thick as a sheet of paper, which forms for her what looks like a boat to protect her eggs.
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