naked mole rat
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 10:36 pm
Would do good in Fallout.
In spite of looking like a scrotum of an over-the-hill porno star, they also hit the evolutionary jackpot.And now the latest twist in the can-you-believe-what-naked-mole-rats-do story is that the animals can survive for 18 minutes with no oxygen. None.
They can live for at least five hours in an atmosphere that is only 5 percent oxygen (the normal level is about 20 percent). Mice last about a minute with no oxygen and about 15 minutes in 5 percent oxygen.
That'd be in lieu of glucose. Usually plants use fructose.Until recently scientists thought they never got cancer. Then two mole rats in a lab were found to have it. Still, there are a lot of mole rats in the world and only two known to have cancer.
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But mole rats can switch to a different kind of biochemical process that uses fructose — the sugar found in fruit and high fructose corn syrup — and that doesn’t need oxygen at all.