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Scientists from halfway around the world hold their breath amazed by the exceptional discovery of Chinese hunters in the region of Sichuan. It is a sort of cross between bear and kangaroo who have dubbed the "Yeti East."

The hunters had been in the area alerted by residents of a small village that they had been warned that bear a stranger lurking in the area. But what was not exactly captured a bear, do you? It is a strange creature entirely devoid of hair and wrinkled skin. His face is that of a bear, but its tail is like that of a kangaroo. According to the hunters, the animal is constantly emitting a plaintive call very similar to that of a cat, probably in an attempt to call their own and ask for help.

Local legends speak of the Yeti, a large mammal that evolved from humans for thousands of years. The locals believe that this animal is one of them and they have dubbed Yeti East. A name that strikes me as daring as commercial ...

The case is still not known exactly whether it is an unknown animal of a known fact there is a hypothesis that suggests it was a degenerative disease which left this "bear" in that state.

The fact is that doubts will be clarified soon as it has been sent to Beijing to child through a DNA analysis, we know who he is, where is and how it has managed to hide from us for so long.

A few days after posting the entry Life as we know NO , leading to my other case of a science fiction creature, a being capable of surviving many conditions that they would not mind. This is the tardigrades, also known as Water Bear, an animal so tough that some characterize him as indestructible.

The name Tardigrada means "slow", and this microscopic invertebrate measures between 0.1 and 1.2 mm was named in 1775, as I you can imagine, for being too slow. But the most amazing creature called "Water Bear" three years before its official discovery is neither slow nor his lack of circulatory, respiratory or excretory most exciting is that it is able to survive almost any thing.
The Tardigrada is able to dehydrate himself from having 85% body water, only 3%. In this way, stunting their growth, reproduction and metabolism staying in a state which can wake semiexistencia as if nothing past hundreds or thousands of years. So I could avoid long periods in which environmental conditions were not conducive to its existence.
Is not this enough to catalog it as indestructible? Well, wait there's more. It has been shown that the Bear Water can survive temperatures between -272 º C to 149 º C, which is able to withstand immersion in alcohol or ether, which is not affected by the pressures of the deep sea to 4000 meters deep, or can survive the vacuum and the lack of any long trips in space and Russian scientists have found the rocket that had just arrived from outer space missions.
Nature is capricious, and the more powerful we believe more it tries to show us that we are not even remotely, the masters of the planet on which we live.

I must admit I am a person who pisses you read that scientists and experts such things as "there can be no life there" or "failure to meet the requirements for hosting life. What we know about those requirements? Is not it an act of enormous self-centeredness to make statements such as we have yet to discover even half of the forms of life on our tiny planet?

The Elysia chlorotica, a newly discovered sea slug is able to do things that nobody ever thought he could make an animal. The animal has developed a complex mix of chemicals to develop, as do the algae, its own pigment chlorophyll. This pigment gives the ability to create energy through photosynthesis and survive without other food besides solar energy.

This slug gets the chloroplasts of algae that eats its young age and keep it on its own animal cells so that, in adulthood, no longer need to eat or breathe.

We are at the first animal that serves as a plant, a new milestone in nature that shows us once again that we have no idea of how all life on our planet, and therefore we are unable to imagine how it could others operate in different environmental characteristics.

How many more things we need to discover to realize how ignorant we are?

Animal in the world an animal which, when attacking their prey, do it with a jaws of free movement to make it seem out of his mouth another mouth. Pink goblin shark (Mitsukurina owstoni) measures between two and twelve feet and can be found in the western and eastern Atlantic, western Indian Ocean, Western Pacific Ocean from Japan to Australia.

Again a member of the family of sharks awakens our imagination in an impressive manner, and that none of you to see the video that I put below you will ignore the resemblance that is on its way to attack Alien creature film.

Nothing more we know about this creature, in fact you have video this video belongs to the first images that have an exemplary life. Keep in mind that sharks inhabit our planet billions of years earlier than did the dinosaurs and has survived five mass extinctions in the history of life on our planet. I mean, taking into account old they are and that we know hardly 5% of the creatures that inhabit our seas, it is quite possible that now that it seems that begins to use technology to discover that beneath the sea, follow leaving us surprised and speechless because they are more than any other creature known to the living example of one of the biggest hits of the evolution of species. All this, of course, if our race fails in his stubborn determination to finish them.

The man in his eternal and stupid arrogance, thought to understand everything about our planet and about life in general. Even in an act of arrogance, some "scientists" are saying it's impossible that there is life anywhere else than our battered blue planet.

Fortunately for us there is a group of scientists who still believe there is still much to discover on our own planet and is making one of the largest projects exploring new forms of life history: The "Census of Marine Life."

The CVM, an international project involving 344 scientists from 34 different nationalities, has just recorded 17 650 species, of which almost all were unknown, the so-called twilight zone of seas and oceans. The twilight zone is located where no sunlight reaches, between 200 and 5,000 meters deep.

They have discovered thousands of colorful invertebrates, corals and sea urchins are capable of surviving a kilometer below the sea surface. Of this amount of baby octopuses include a new type of two meters in length which they christened as Dumbo for their fins in the form of giant ears, a marine worm that ate was caught while crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or a larva transparent crawling on the seabed 2.6 miles from building on its many tentacles.

To give you an idea of what all this means I put this example: of the 680 specimens of copepods (a type of shellfish maxilópodos small) were collected only known seven.

Those responsible for the census described as "indescribable," the number of species discovered and have been assured it will be challenging to understand how it managed to survive an immense variety of creatures in such difficult conditions.

To illustrate a little better that I leave a video input where you can see some of the species discovered.