Random Real Animals That Literally Have Superpowers (20 items)

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  (#8) Naked Mole Rat

  • Heterocephalus glaber

  No one knows why, but naked mole rats can't get cancer. Scientists have studied their genes and are working on a way to clone and sequence their DNA. Averse to cancer, literal lab rats, crazy skin - these guys are basically the Deadpool of the animal kingdom.
  
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  (#11) Salamander

  • Caudata

  You guys, salamanders can regrow their limbs with a real regenerative healing factor. Scientists are in the early stages of reverse engineering the salamander's healing power to lengthen the human life span.
  
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  (#15) Cuckoo

  • Cuculidae

  Like the sleazy baddie from Marvel's Jessica Jones, the cuckoo bird uses its voice to make other birds do the one thing they don't want to do - foster the cuckoo's eggs while ignoring their own.
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  (#13) Hummingbird

  • Trochilidae

  If you've ever seen a hummingbird in flight then you know already know that it's an amazing creature. But did you know that hummingbirds are the fastest animal, relative to their size? A scientist measured them moving at up to 385 body lengths per second (blps) - around 27.3 meters per second.
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  (#9) Water Boatman, Master of the Highlands

  The Water Boatman is a tiny bug, but it can make a sound that blasts out at 99.2 decibels, about the volume of a loud orchestra, which is insane because the Boatman is about as big as your fingernail. How does it do this? It rubs its penis against its abdomen in a process known as "stridulation."
   
  Move this critter to Scotland and name it Banshee.
  
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  (#16) Don't Call the Archer Fish Puddin'

  An archer fish is basically the Deadshot of the undersea world. Sniper fish shoot a water jet right out of their mouths with incredible accuracy. How? They compress their gill covers, and force water through a veritable "gun barrel" made by their tongue and the roof of their mouth.

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