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10 UNBELIEVABLE Animal Superpowers!! From stunning prey with supersonic blasts to re-growing lost limbs…stay tuned to number 1 to find out 10 amazing animal superpowers!
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From stunning prey with supersonic blasts to re-growing lost limbs…stay tuned to number
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1 to find out 10 amazing animal superpowers!
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Number 10: The Horned Lizard.
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As far as superpowers go, the horned lizard seems to have gotten one from the very bottom
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of the barrel, one that would likely not be your first choice of superpower and would
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in fact, not even make your top ten.
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That is because the horned lizard has the unique ability to shoot blood from its eyes;
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something that would likely only be useful to us over Halloween when we use it to freak
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out our loved ones, but pretty useless the rest of the time.
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For the lizard though, it is a crucial survival technique and it is most commonly used to
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ward off predators or occasionally to clean debris from its eyes.
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The lizard achieves this superpower by filling their ocular sinus below their eye with blood,
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and then constricting two muscles on either side of it causing the pressure to force the
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blood out of its eye socket.
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This jet of blood can reach up to 4 feet and is probably as effective as you might expect
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shooting blood from your eyes to be.
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That is to say, very effective.
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Number 9: The Platypus.
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The platypus is already a strange animal that breaks the traditional mammal mold by having
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a beak and laying eggs, and you may not be surprised to learn that most aren’t actually
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agents for a secret organization of spies fighting to keep control of the tri state
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area.
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But did you know that they have a superpower that allows them to track down any moving
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prey in the water?
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The platypus is one of only a few mammals that has the sixth sense of electroreceoption,
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a power that allows them to sense the energy that other animals use to move.
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Essentially, this means that the more the prey moves, the easier it is for the platypus
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to track and eventually hunt.
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Interestingly though, it is the platypus’ beak that senses the movements and the skin
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on its beak is incredibly sensitive and is considered to be its primary sense organ,
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more useful than its eyes and ears, even.
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I am not sure if it would be useful for you or I to be able to sense movements with our
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nose, but it certainly beats squirting blood from your eyes.
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Number 8: The Electric Eel.
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No list of animal superpowers could ever be complete without mentioning the one that has
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its superpower in its name, and let’s be honest, most of us have at some point in our youth
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imagined shooting lightning from our fingertips.
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In this case the electricity is shot out from the eel’s body, and it can pack a punch of
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up to 600 volts, an amount that would stun even an adult man and that has claimed at
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least a few lives due to drowning.
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Also, the eel’s electric shock can do more than just stun its prey and it can even produce
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a smaller shock that would cause a fishes muscles to spasm and propel it out from under
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a crevice it may be hiding below; a power something almost like taking control of somebody
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else’s body.
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Possibly even more interesting than that, the eel can also use its electric shocks as
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a type of sonar to discover where its incapacitated prey may have ended up.
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Number 7: The Salamander.
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The ability to regrow lost limbs has been a power that many a life form has dreamed
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of.
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And while it may seem like something that will remain exclusively in the movies, it’s
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actually a real thing that the salamander has already perfected.
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While this power is not exclusive to salamanders, they are the most proficient at it, and are
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able to regrow large portions some of their organs, including the brain, as well as various
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limbs, bones, and all.
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This is because of their very special immune systems and its ability to send cells called
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macrophages to the wound as quickly as possible.
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Once the wound has been sealed up by these cells, the body goes about repairing and replacing
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the cells in a process that scientists are still trying to understand.
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The hopes of this is to one day allow people to be able to regenerate lost limbs and organs,
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so, if you are patient…you too can be the next Deadpool.
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Number 6: The Dragon Millipede.
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Despite sounding like a boss battle in some video game, the dragon millipede is a real
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life insect with a real life superpower worthy of making it a real life boss battle.
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Named after the spines on its back, there are 23 different species of dragon millipede
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and most of them are found exclusively in one small region.
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One of these millipedes is called the Shocking Pink Dragon Millipede and it is the specific
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one that this entry is about.
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Not just because of its name and the fact that it is the largest of the dragon millipedes,
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nor is its super power its shocking pink color.
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But rather the fact that it is able to spray out a jet of cyanide.
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This isn’t a one off thing, either, and these millipedes have the ability to create cyanide
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as a defense method in order to scare off predators, and there are even reports of it
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blinding roosters and hens that were unfortunate enough to find it.
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Number 5: The Sea Cucumber.
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This particular power may only be intriguing to a select few of us, but it is still a superpower
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nonetheless.
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Imagine being able to turn your body into a puddle of liquid whenever you may need it.
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Now imagine that you are a sea cucumber, because they already know how.
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That’s right, the sea cucumber has mastered the ability of turning itself into liquid
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in order to squeeze itself into tight spaces or to evade predators.
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One of these predators, it seems, is us humans, as sea cucumbers are considered delicacies
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in some parts of the world.
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Scientists have even begun using the sea cucumber as inspiration to create a new type of plastic
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that can quickly change from rigid and solid to becoming soft and flexible when exposed
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to water.
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This is great news, too, because it means they chose not to go with its second superpower,
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which is to extract its internal organs and then regrow them again.
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Number 4: The Turritopsis Dohrnii.
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Immortality is something that many of us have dreamed of, whether it’s because you just
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have so much you dream of doing, or simply because you actually want to live beyond your
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debt, it is a concept that many have dreamed of accomplishing.
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While we continue to dream of these things, the Turritopsis jellyfish has already accomplished
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it, which suggests that the key to immortality is having neither a heart nor a brain.
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The most amazing thing about this jellyfish is the fact that it isn’t some four foot long
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beast but rather an extremely tiny little creature, with an adult Turritopsis measuring
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only 4.5 millimeters wide.
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Officially recognized as the worlds only immortal creature, this little jellyfish does not simply
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live forever but actually reverts back to a juvenile polyp state once it has reached
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maturity.
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From its polyp state it is reborn and grows to an adult all over again.
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The real question now is, would immortality be worth it if you reverted back to a baby
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every 80 years?
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Number 3: The Pistol Shrimp.
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Imagine trying to clap your hands underwater loud enough to stun those around you, could
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be a great party trick but not much else.
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The Pistol shrimp takes this to new levels.
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As the name suggests, the pistol shrimp is a shrimp that has a deadly weapon attached
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to its body, that weapon being one of its claws.
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The pistol shrimp is considered the oceans most deadly shots, and the way that it achieves
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this is by snapping its claw so fast that it sends a bubble of air shooting forwards
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towards its prey, it’s not just any bubble either.
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It’s a bubble that travels at around 62 miles per hour and that is accompanied by a 220
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decimal sound wave.
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The force of these two abilities stun the prey long enough for the shrimp to swim over
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and claim its prize.
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Don’t think that a shrimp that loses its pistol claw is useless either, because, if it loses
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its larger, more dangerous claw for any reason, its smaller claw grows to the size of the
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original and becomes its new weapon of mass stunning.
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Number 2: The Mantis Shrimp.
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Unfortunately for the pistol shrimp, the mantis shrimp is far more superior, and has it and
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even us as humans beat in some ways.
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First, human eyes only have three types of color receptive cones, this allows us to see
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everything as we already do every day.
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The mantis shrimp has us slightly beat here in that it has 16 color receptive cones; what
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this means is that apart from the colors we all know and love, the mantis shrimp can see
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hundreds, if not thousands, of other colors that we can’t even fathom, this includes ultra
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violet light.
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As if that isn’t super enough, its front claws are its main hunting weapons and move so fast
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when attacking that it actually boils the water around them, the attack works much in
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the same way as the pistol shrimp and the sound that comes off of its claws is enough
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to stun other shrimp and even fish.
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Also, you probably shouldn’t try keep one as a pet, as they are known to crack the glass
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of fish tanks from the force of their attacks.
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Number 1: The Tardigrade.
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As far as hardy, completely invincible superpowers go, the tardigrade is almost on the same level
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as superman in terms of its inability to die.
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Also known as water bears, a tardigrade is a near microscopic creature that measures
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1.2 millimeters long, or 0.04 inches.
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It can survive anywhere on the planet, and can even survive in the vacuum of space without
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breaking a sweat.
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Don’t think that you can just burn or freeze them either, because they can survive in temperatures
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as low as -328 degrees Fahrenheit as well as up to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
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They can survive radiation, boiling temperatures and up to 6 times the pressure of the deepest
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part of the ocean.
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Of course, even though it can survive anywhere, they do have their ideal home and are most
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comfortable living in the sediment at the bottom of lakes all around the world.
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As far as a species is concerned, these little critters will likely long outlive the human
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race and will be around until they themselves become earth’s dominant species.
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What do you think about these amazing animal superpowers?
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Let us know in the comments below and…take care!
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