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Capable of living over four hundred years, this shark slows its biology in glacial depths until aging becomes an almost imperceptible process.
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An unusual biological pact allows the embryos of this amphibian to feed on sunlight through plant cells inside them.
Animals
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Discover how this unusual subterranean rodent cheats brain death by replacing glucose with fructose during complete asphyxia.
Biology
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This starfish relative lacks a head and visible eyes, yet solved vision by transforming its calcite armor into thousands of optically perfect microlenses.
Nature
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The longest living organism ever recorded in the ocean depths is not a solitary animal, but a prodigious colony of specialized clones.
Animals
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A unique anatomical design in vertebrates that compensates in real time for the physics of aerial and aquatic light using asymmetrical lenses.
Nature
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Discovered in 1998, this amazing cephalopod analyzes its attacker and copies the body and movements of the predator that terrifies it most.
Animals
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Smaller than a single-celled amoeba, this microscopic creature flies and hunts after dismantling the DNA of 95% of its adult nervous system.
Animals
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This marvel of natural cryogenics stops its blood flow and brain activity at -18 °C thanks to a biochemical glucose shield.
Biology
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Faced with the El Niño phenomenon, this reptile reabsorbs up to 20% of its skeleton and regenerates it when food returns.
Nature
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Discover 'Pseudis paradoxa', the vertebrate that baffled science with a regressive metamorphosis where the adult is much smaller than its young.
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This marine predator releases a miniaturized, ultra-fast version of the hormone that plunges fish glucose to engulf them motionless