Animals and amazing abilities

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A thread for those occurances in nature that seem rather special (immortal jellfish/lobster, human self regulation of temperature etc).


Watched an Attenborough doc today, a recent one, he was quite old, and there was the wood frog in it. Not sure if I have seen it before, probably have, but I was intrigued by it's ability to 'sort-if' go into suspended animation (a mild form) over winter, by releasing certain products into it's body it was able to freeze and then thaw itself, and after a few hours it was fine to continue on it's way in spring.

Reminded me of the scene in ALiens when the marines wake up from cryo.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/07...