Introducing Some of the Most Amazing Animals With the Coolest Abilities on the Planet

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Animals can be pretty amazing and evolution has given some of them extremely cool abilities that allow them to survive extremely wild situations. These are just a few of those superhero-esque powers.

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00:00Animals can be pretty amazing, and evolution has given some of them extremely cool abilities

00:08that let them survive in extremely wild situations.

00:11The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology reports, 60% of Alaskan wood frogs

00:16let their bodies freeze solid every winter.

00:19They do this by building up massive amounts of glucose in their organs, a protectant against

00:23the formation of ice crystals that would otherwise damage their cells, similar to the protein

00:28found in the blood of notothenioid fish, which binds to ice crystals that try to form

00:32while a fish inhabits waters that sit around 28 degrees.

00:35Meanwhile those frogs' cousins, the Cyclorana australis frog, create mucus cocoons to wait

00:40out particularly hot and dry periods.

00:43Then you have the Okapi, perhaps Congo's strangest looking creature, their feet also

00:47have glands that spread a musky substance to mark their territory.

00:50Still, one of the more impressive abilities visually must be the Cuttlefish.

00:54Their camouflaging skills allow them to not only change their color to blend in with their

00:57surroundings, but they can also change the texture of their bodies as well.

01:01Cuttlefish have an estimated 10 million chromatophores, or tiny pigmented skin cells each controlled

01:06separately, allowing them to take on the guise of just about any underwater structure.

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