Drumlines at high school football games are always fan favorites. There’s just something about them that makes people pay attention. So when this group trotted onto the field, the fans were already excited.
But a few minutes into the performance, something strange started to happen. That’s when these fans were treated to something they’d never seen before.
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Skill, talent, and creativity. These kids are superstars!
Some kids are born to be inventors. They spend their free time tinkering with everything in sight, wondering how things could be better. These little ones are great innovators in the making!
Take this boy, for example. Instead of seeing a leaf blower and some rollerblades, he saw an opportunity to create something awesome.
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I never would’ve thought of that! Kids like this are wise beyond their years. That cord may not let him get very far, but his flair for innovation certainly will.
Superheroes are great, with their multitude of powers and some pretty awesome outfits to boot. But did you know that there are creatures whose skills surpass those of puny humans? You might even interact with some of these superpowered heroes all the time. Others, however, live in secluded, hard-to-access places, but they all have incredible and real abilities that will make you a little jealous.
Dogs can detect the earliest traces of cancer via a person’s breath. We’re only now learning how to use their skills for medical purposes.
Scientists are still unsure as to why they’ve developed this trait.
They’re able to liquify their bodies and slip right out.
These cephalopods can take on the color and shape of just about any sea creature out there. Plus, they look like little baby Cthulhus, so there’s that.
The wood frog is totally fine if its blood freezes solid. It just wakes up in spring.
The Planarian flat worm can grow a new head if beheaded. The new head will remember everything the old head did.
Pigeons are one of only six animals who can recognize themselves in a mirror, and the only non-mammal. They also recognize human faces.
When threatened, this frog, named for its fringy additions, can break off a nodule of sharp bone in its feet and push those sharp bits through its own skin for defense.
The camel can go for 15 days without water, which is impressive, but some species of kangaroo rat have been observed going for five years without a drink.
And the night after that, too. Dolphins have been known to stay awake for 15 days, because they can put one half of their brains to sleep at any time.
Fleas can jump up to 220 times their own body length.
Regular crayfish have a lifespan of about six to seven years. The cave crayfish, though, can live to be 175.
As a defense mechanism, this lizard shoots blood out of its eyes.
Crocodiles swallow large stones that stay in their stomachs forever. One theory as to why is that the weight helps them dive.
Besides having a really impressive tail, these birds can mimic just about any sound, and have the most advanced vocal cords in the world.
These mountain goats have been seen casually walking up nearly vertical cliff faces in search of salt deposits.
This makes sense, seeing as how they’re the largest animals, but their heartbeats can also be heard from two miles away.
For one thing, they have trinocular vision, seeing from three areas of their eyes, and they have something like 16 color receptors — whereas humans have only three. They also pack a serious punch, sending out shockwaves through the water that have been known to shatter aquarium glass.
No, we mean that. These things can survive super-high doses of radiation, intense heat, and even the vacuum of space. They also haven’t changed in billions of years.
They hear with their ears, too, but they can pick up low-frequency sounds through the ground via the sensitive soles of their padded feet.
If you’re feeling a little inadequate in the face of all these awesome skills, remember that humans are among the billions of creatures making up this planet, all with unique abilities. Be happy there are such fascinating creatures to share a home with!
This is it, folks, we’ve reached that time of year. June: when it really, REALLY starts to feel like summer. Good luck smelling nice for the next few months, because chances are, you’re going to be permanently sweaty until September.
These animals feel your pain, though, and while some of them have figured out solutions to the problem…others are just going to have to suffer through it with the rest of us!
Well, you win some, you lose some…at least there will always be ice cream!
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