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Friday, October 10, 2014
Extreme Adventures Shots That Keep Your Breath Away
Today we have an extreme photos collection of Adventures Shots which is known as Thrilling, this would be a most inspiring photo collection you have ever seen and it will surely make you wonder. I really appreciate all those photographers who have taken these awesome and extreme photos. Have a look and enjoy… Trolltunga norway
Ice Climbing in Eidfjord, Norway
Jumping the Mount Baker Road Gap, Washington
Free Soloing in Yosemite National Park
Kayaking La Paz Falls, Costa Rica
Surfing Waimea Bay, Hawaii
Backcountry Skiing, Austria
Abu Dhabi Adventure Challenge
BASE Jumping, Utah
Rock Climbing in Trout Creek, Oregon
Surfing at Outside Avalanche, Oahu
Plunging Over Shepherds Falls, Oregon
Diving Devil’s Hole, Cuba
BASE Jumping in Norway
Surfing Waimea Shorebreak, Oahu
Freeriding in Baja, Mexico
Competing in the Primal Quest Adventure Race
Meet the world’s only immortal animal
If you’re thinking McLeod, you couldn’t be further from the truth. What you have to do is think small; not microscopic, just big enough to see with your naked eye. Turritopsis nutricula is a hydrozoan, and it’s considered by scientists to be the only animal that cheated death.
Solitary organisms are (according to current belief) doomed to die, after they completed their life cycle. Hydrozoa are a huge class of predatory animals that live mostly in saltwater, closely related to jellyfish and corals. Eggs and sperm from an adult jellyfish (medusa) and they then develop into polyp stage. Medusae evolve asexually from polyps.
Still, our Turritopsis nutricula (could we call it Joe??) managed to find a way to beat that. What these little folks do is they revert completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after they reach sexual maturity. They’re even cooler than that. When they’re young they’ve got only several tentacles, but at a mature stage, they get to 80-90 of them.
They’re able to return to polyp stage due to a cell change in the external screen (Exumbrella), which allows them to bypass death. As far as scientists have been able to find out, this change renders the hydrozoa virtually immortal.
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