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Biology
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These invertebrates rebuild an entire organism from a tiny fragment and retain learned behaviors after regenerating their brain.
Health and wellness
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Far from inhaling air symmetrically, your nervous system inflates and deflates your nostrils in a continuous relay to optimize your smell and protect your lungs.
Nature
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Extreme regeneration capacity in marine echinoderms
Science and technology
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These aquatic salamanders can regenerate limbs, organs, and even parts of the brain
Health and wellness
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The human body's most resilient muscle and its secrets of longevity
Nature
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These echinoderms can regenerate entire limbs and even split in two
Animals
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A rodent that breaks biological dogma by using dermal autotomy and rebuilding complex tissues like a salamander.
Biology
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Trichobatrachus robustus evolved an unusual defense mechanism that fractures its own phalanges to pierce its skin and wound predators.
Health and wellness
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During gestation, embryonic stem cells colonize maternal organs to integrate for life and come to the rescue during severe injuries.
Nature
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Faced with lethal internal parasites, this mollusk severs its own head and survives for weeks without a heart using stolen solar energy.
Nature
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Able to rebuild an entire body from a microscopic fragment, this tiny creature defies the laws of aging and biological memory.
Animals
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When attacked by a predator, this newt thrusts its bones through its skin as venomous needles.