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Animal superpowers
Topic Started: Mar 8 2015, 04:33 PM (1,313 Views)
Paleop
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Paleopterix

this is a topic for discussing animals with superpowers

these superpowers can range from the ironclad beetle's durability to a lungfishes ability to survive on land or even venom.

have fun :D
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Acinonyx Jubatus
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!

Water Bears are invincible.

That is all.
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I saw a squirrel free fall 50 feet and run off immediately after it hit the ground.
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Catfish can survive everywhere and there's "nothing" that kills them.
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

Furka
Mar 9 2015, 04:11 AM
Catfish can survive everywhere and there's "nothing" that kills them.
Monitor and snakehead hunt them here tho...

Also..... Many species of seabird such as albratosses and petrels, if not coming back to land for breeding can spend their entire life flying over the ocean with only a little rest.....
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if memory proves to be correct, woodpeckers are extraordinary in that they can wrap their long tongues around their brains to soften impact force with a log.

also bombardier beetle

........does it seem the balance of superpowers leans toward the side of invertebrates?
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Furka
Mar 9 2015, 04:11 AM
Catfish can survive everywhere and there's "nothing" that kills them.
Sure. Nothing kills them.
Except for me. Catfish soup FTW! xD
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Paleop
Mar 9 2015, 03:47 PM
if memory proves to be correct, woodpeckers are extraordinary in that they can wrap their long tongues around their brains to soften impact force with a log.

also bombardier beetle

........does it seem the balance of superpowers leans toward the side of invertebrates?
Only because we define vertebrates as "normal."

And Woodpeckers can't wrap their tongues around their brains, I believe they're locked like that eternally.

I heard a story once where a live Olm was stuck in a jar and put in the refrigerator for 12 years. When it came out again it was still alive, and had absorbed its entire digestive tract as food.
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Don't forget ZOMBIES of animal kingdom the COCKROACHES which can survive without Head!
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Or Seahorses.
The male seahorses gives birth to it's babies instead of the female.

awkward.
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Mar 9 2015, 09:57 PM
Furka
Mar 9 2015, 04:11 AM
Catfish can survive everywhere and there's "nothing" that kills them.
Sure. Nothing kills them.
Except for me. Catfish soup FTW! xD
That's because you're 'Murican and you see catfish as something "normal".
Here no one eats them (except for chinese and east europeans ,but they eat everything they can pull out of the water) because they are ugly as hell, live in the post dirty and polluted waters, and we have plenty of other and better choices when it comes to eating fish.

Not even our predators eat them, because channels are too spiky and wels are huge.
Bullheads are the only ones that get eaten by other animals.
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Are we not going to talk about the fact that some jellyfish species are practically immortal?
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good point there,helios

I had a friend who put bullhead catfish in a freezer and they were still alive 3 days later...
axolotl: the Deadpool of the animal kingdom
also fish knon as the black swallower fish
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Sea Cucumbers can eviscerate themselves and live to do it all over again another day.

And this isn't technically a superpower, but did you know Starfish have tiny Velociraptors growing out of their skin?

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There is always something going on...

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The secretions of White's Tree Frogs are known to lower blood-pressure, and have anti-bacterial properties.
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