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Animazing

Selection in relation with the exhibition [16.10.2026 - 29.08.2027]

 

 

* EXTREME RESILIENCE (CRYPTOBIOSIS AND IMMORTALITY) 

 

* TOLERANCE TO FROST AND EXTREME COLD 

  • Costanzo, J.P., et al (1991) Effect of cooling rate on the survival of frozen wood frogs, Rana sylvatica. Journal of Comparative Physiology, B161, p. 225-229. [C27937]
  • Packard, G.C., et al (2002) Cold-tolerance of hatchling painted turtles (Chrysemys picta bellii) from the southern limit of distribution. Journal of Herpetology, 36/2, p. 300-304. [P3435]

 

* MASTERS OF THE DESERT AND DEHYDRATION 

  • Agut-Labordère, D. & Redon, B. Les vaisseaux du désert et des steppes : les camélidés dans l'Antiquité: Camelus dromedarius et Camelus bactrianus. MOM Éditions, 2020. [C40547]

 

* SURIVORS OF THE DEEP AND EXTREME PRESSURES 

  • Desbruyères, D. & Laubier, L. (1980) Alvinella pompejana gen. sp. nov., Ampharetidae aberrant des sources hydrothermales de la ride Est-Pacifique. In Oceanologica Acta, 3/3, p. 445-452. [P2425]
  • Dollo, L. La vie au sein des mers : la faune marine et les grandes profondeurs, les grandes explorations sous-marines, les conditions d'existence dans les abysses, la faune abyssale. Baillière, 1891. [A927/S236]
  • Gerringer, M.E., et al (2017) Pseudoliparis swirei sp. nov.: a newly-discovered hadal snailfish (Scorpaeniformes: Liparidae) from the Mariana Trench. Zootaxa, 4358/1, p. 161-177. 
  • Nielsen, J., et al (2016) Eye lens radicarbon reveals centuries of longevity in the Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus). Science, 353, p. 702-704. [P4721]

 

* TOTAL PHYSICAL REGENERATION 

  • Griffiths, J.R., et al (2026) A characterization of axolotl digit regeneration: conserved mechanisms, divergent patterning, and critical role for hedgehog signaling. Regenerative Medicine, 11, art. 28. Available online : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41536-026-00461-2
  • S.n. (2011) La renénération de la planaire. La Recherche, 454, p. ? [P838] à vérifier sur place 
  • Wagner, D.E., et al (2011) Clonogenic neoblasts are pluripotent adult stem cells that underlie planarian regeneration. Science, 332/6031, p. 811-816. [P4721]

 

* RESISTANCE TO POISONS AND TOXIC ENVIRONMENTS 

 

* CAMOUFLAGE AND INVISIBILITY 

  • Bailey, J. Mimicry and camouflage. Facts on File Publ., 1988. [S6043]
  • Norman, M.D., et al (2001) Dynamic mimicry in an Indo-Malayan octopus. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 268, p. 1755-1758. 
  • Owen, D. Camouflage and mimicry. University of Chicago Press, 1982. [S6024]
  • Stephenson, E.M. Animal camouflage. Penguin Books, 1946.[A3150]
  • Taylor, E.H. (1951) Two new genera and a new family of tropical American frogs. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 64, p. 33-40. [P645] [Cochranella susatamai]
  • Von Frisch, O. Le camouflage animal. Flammarion, 1973. [C36390]

 

* OXYGEN DEPRIVATION (ANOXIA)

 

* SUPERHUMAN PHYSICAL ATTACK AND DEFENCE 

 

* ACROBATICS PERFORMANCES

 

* MISCELLANEOUS

  • Carwardine, M. & Cox, R.K. A la rencontre des extrêmes : les records du monde vivant. National Geographic, 2009.