- microscopic extremophiles
- Deinococcus radiodurans: The world's toughest known bacterium. Highly resistant to radiation, can be found in harsh desert environments, can survive in outter space for >=3 years, can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, and acid.
- Thermococcus gammatolerans: Found in hydrothermal vents at 70–95 °C, this organism can survive 3000 times the radiation that would kill a human.
- Exploding animals
- Carcinisation: an example of convergent evolution in which a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by L. A. Borradaile, who described it as "one of the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab"
- Some jellyfish are immortal, some bioluminescent
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Gigantism
- Island gigantism
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Deep-sea gigantism
- Giant Squid: Compared to Colossal squid, Giants squid are longer (because of their longer tentacles), but lighter. Inhabits all oceans, but frequents the North Atlantic; Avoids tropical & polar climates.
- Colossal squid: Compared to Giant Squid, Colossal Squid are heavier, but shorter. Inhabits only the Southern Ocean.
- Gigantic octopus
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Mammoth,
& Woolly mammoth
- Revival of the woolly mammoth
- Waco Mammoth National Monument
- 13 mammoth facts
- Humans hunted mammoths
- ~50% of the ivory sold in China is mammoth ivory
- Mammoths were alive when the Egyption pyramids were completed, and for another ~1000 years.
- Photo of an awe-inspiringly enormous pile of American Bison skulls to be used as fertalizer. The American Bison was brought near to extinction, but has recovered.
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"Blue Tears" bioluminescent algae in the East Asian Sea:
Toxic but awe-inspiring Dinoflagellates.
