1) A mouse that lives like an ant.
Scientists call it a "heterosexual," meaning it has an irregular head, but most people call it a "naked mole rat," because it is hairless, and it is nearly deaf and blind. But it has some amazing features, the most important of which is its lifestyle, it lives in colonies in tunnels, with a very strict social hierarchy and under the control of a queen, which means it organization is close to that known to most insects.
The mole has a chatter-like language or languages, 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's a cold-blooded mammal that doesn't feel most types of pain, and can "vegetate," or more precisely behave, in an almost oxygen-free environment. Able to survive. As plants do, as explained by the team of Professor Thomas Park of the University of Illinois (University of Illinois).
What has drawn the attention of biologists and geneticists to this animal is its immunity to cancer, as Cambridge University researchers discovered that these animals are as susceptible to cancer as other species. I, but the way their cells are organized in their bodies, was a mechanism. resist this disease.
2) Regenerative Salamander (Axolotl)
This small native Mexican animal that spends its entire life in the water has a strange face with a tuft of hair on the back of its head that represents gills, and most of the time it lives in the larval state. Without changing into his adult form, though it does happen. Don't stop it from reproducing.
The animal also has regenerative abilities that have attracted the attention of the scientific community. This - says biologist Emmanuel Cora Costa of the University of La Plata (Universidad Nacional de la Plata) in Argentina - its body contains approx. Everything is renewed. It rejuvenates organs, heart, lungs, jaws, and eyes, even regenerates part of his brain if it is damaged, all without scarring.
"This animal regenerates every injured organ, if the injury is not fatal," says Yale University's Parker Flowers, who is part of the team studying the miraculous salamander genome, and therefore the human body's ability to repair itself. is invaluable to researchers interested in the potential of Unfortunately, it is threatened with extinction in its natural environment.
3) Bear cub on the moon
The animal was transported to and studied by the International Space Station, and is found all over the planet, and an Israeli probe containing a few thousand crashed on the lunar surface in April 2019. Was, and very likely is. That these organisms survived, even in a state of hibernation.
Although microscopic, the baby teddy bear has tremendous abilities. It is a slow gator and can survive powerful impacts such as the vacuum of space, temperatures near absolute zero, boiling water, dangerous radiation and rifle bullets.
This organism can survive in hostile environments, as it completely hardens and then regenerates, but the only downside is that global warming will be detrimental to it, as the University of Copenhagen A group of scientists showed that water bears don't like much. temperature for long periods.
4)Blob.. a memory without a brain
Blobs are second only to water bears of interest to humans, and are not animals, plants, bacteria, molds or viruses. Consisting of interconnected tubes that can stretch for several meters, it has no organs, let alone a brain, and yet is able to learn and communicate.
The author asked: How can memory occur without neurons? But French researchers at the Center for Research on Animal Cognition explained in 2019 that "the blob learns to tolerate a substance by absorbing it," and this year a German team shed light on the mystery, saying, "The network structure of this organism act as memories of the past,” said the professor. Karen Aleem, co-author of the study.
5) The beast wakes up after 24,000 years.
A microscopic animal awoke from a 24,000-year hibernation, the author said, as microbes were discovered in the permafrost of Siberia by a Russian team, which was able to date a layer of frozen soil that I was there. , but this body is not a simple bacteria, but an animal Multicellular, and was able to reproduce by parthenogenesis.
The Russian team pointed out that the study it conducted provided the strongest evidence yet that multicellular animals can survive for tens of thousands of years, in a state where their metabolism almost completely stops.
6) Jellyfish live forever.
The "immortal jellyfish" is said to be the only known animal capable of returning to childhood. It begins as an egg, then a larva, then a polyp, and then into an adult. It is a jellyfish that swims lazily in water, but it can develop upside down to return to the state of appendages. The adenoids that give birth to jellyfish are genetically identical to their predecessors, and thus begin to age again, in a process that makes them theoretically immortal.
7) A colorful bird with a foul smell.
This bird, although not a cousin of the weasel, shares its smell characteristics with it. It is a beautiful, multi-colored bird with fluffy feathers that is known for its smell and feeds only on leaves.
A hootzen has a weak arm like a chicken, and like a cow, it has many pockets in its stomach, where digestion is slow, and it is the rotting leaves in its digestive system that produce the odor that causes it. It is called the stink bird, and it lives in the tropical forests of South America.
8) "Panda Ant"
It is so named because it somewhat resembles a miniature panda with an extra pair of legs, and those unfamiliar with insect taxonomy may mistake it for an ant because individuals call it "Espinola" (euspinolia). ) and its cousins the "velvet ants" resemble ants, although they are close relatives of the wasp in that the females do not have wings.
The panda ant lives in Chile, and has a sting that it does not hesitate to use, and lays its eggs among the larvae of bees and other wasps to feed the larvae of their hosts.
9) The giant squid is a mythical beast.
The giant squid isn't exactly huge, as the largest adult discovered weighed a ton, and was about 13 meters long. It lives at great depths, and feeds on fish and other squid. He was first seen alive in 2006.
Scientists were able to sequence the giant squid's genome in early 2020, and it contains 2.7 billion base pairs, or 90 percent of the size of the human genome, and the creature's eyes are 30 centimeters in diameter, which The largest in the entire animal kingdom, but it does not live more than about 5 years
10) Sailing Argonauts.. Molluscs of the year
The "Argonauts" mollusk has no special qualities other than its appearance, which is why it won the "Mollusk 2021" beauty contest, as a jury of experts selected 5 contestants from 120 nominations, and an online audience. Voted the winner. The "Argonaute" type was announced on February 1st.
The female of these molluscs has special arms that resemble an oose and hides a ceramic shell as thick as a sheet of paper, which looks like a boat for her to protect the eggs.
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