Ten (10) animals that can live after death

2nd of March 2022

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10. Dancing Squid

Soy sauce can spice up a dish for sure but who knew it was powerful enough to bring back a squid to life. This squid dish is known as the dancing squid rice bowl or a dory dawn in Japanese. Even though the cuttlefish is dead here it still moves like it's not.

It's not magic, it's science. The squid is fully intact so even if there's no brain inside, the muscle cells are still there. They react to the sodium chloride or salt in the soy sauce. The muscle cells send electrical commands, and the squid starts to do a belly dance. The muscles still have some ATP in them the main source of energy when the sultan soy reaches the muscle the cephalopod basically starts to spasm.

9. Cockroaches

We've all heard that cockroaches are indestructible, they can even survive a nuclear bomb. Some say they can live without their head too. Unlike humans, these cockroaches breathe through a whole network of pipes connected to holes called the spiracles.

Moreover, they don't really have blood so there's not much circulation of oxygen. The brain only handles the main sensory input coming in from their eyes and antennae. Many other behaviours such as running and reacting, touch is controlled by ganglia on each segment of their bodies. So once their head hits off, they can still go on about their day like nothing happened. In fact, the only problem will be that they won't have a way of ingesting food we call it the all-new cockroach diet.

8. Chickens

Mammals including humans have a very complex circulatory system. This means we can't live without our heads. However, this one chicken beat all odds and managed to wow us all like most chickens. This one had the fate of the axe; however, this beheading went so wrong that it went right to the lucky clucker.

The axe missed the jugular vein and a clot prevented mike the chicken from bleeding to death. Without a head, much of his brain stem was still intact which meant many basic functions such as breathing and heart rate were still healthy. That's not all, birds have a secondary organ that helps them balance which means this zombie chicken can even walk around too. This chicken lived 18 long months without any worries at all and with no brain.

9. Bees

Insects have a weird nervous system which allows for unusual anomalies all the time. We all know that when a honeybee stings someone it dies immediately, but the opposite of that is also true.

When a bee dies it can still sting. It has a decentralized nervous system which allows the bee to dig the sting deeper into its opponent and pump in the venom so when it comes to freshly decapitated honeybees, they won't go flying near you zombie style but if you pick them up you will end up getting stung. Even under deathbeds, bees lay down all armed up.

8. Salamander

Salamanders especially Axolotls are very cute. They look like they're right out of Alice in wonderland. However, it's not as magical in the wild. These amphibians are cannibals too. In this salamander world, these creatures have to develop a defence mechanism and this mechanism is like no other. When a salamander bites another one they can simply re-grow their limbs. You can't really kill them by chopping up their limbs because they'll just grow back to the same size and orientation. The best part is that it's not just the limbs, this regeneration power works for their brain spinal cord and ovary and lung tissue too.

7. Frogs

Death doesn't have to be sudden sometimes it's very slow, almost like a freezing cold. But for these wood frogs, that is literally the case. Two-thirds of their body turns to ice as a way of their hibernation, if you were to pick them up, they would feel exactly like a popsicle.

Their heart stops beating and their blood stops flowing so technically they sort of do die but in more of a stuck in time sort of way. What's more surprising is that they can withstand temperatures as low as 0 degrees Fahrenheit for more than half a year.

Some experiments show that they can stay frozen for temperatures even lower than that. When the time is right these frogs basically come back to life and thaw out of the cold.

6. snakes

Snakes are scary when they're alive, once you kill them you probably think you're rid of them. Well, you're probably not. That's because snakes are good at retaining the reflexes even after they die which is probably not good news for us.

Cobras and rattlesnakes have a stronger bite reflex since they're carnivorous, but their attack can literally occur in less than a second and sometimes even two tenths of a second. The ions or electrically charged particles in the nerve cells can stay active hours after death so if a freshly dead snake gets stimulated these nerves activate and allow them to bite any unfortunate person that picks it up.

5. Praying mantis

When it comes to a decapitated venomous creature, we're scared that they might sting or bite us but for these poor mantises it's more about who bites them especially the males. Female mantis has been known to bite off the head of their mates in a sort of weird cannibalistic ritual. However, they don't always need to do that. If the male is too irritating or hindering the mating process, she'll just take one bite off of the head of a mate. The most amazing part is that even when the male is decapitated it can still germinate the female counterpart. That is a weirdly specific skill only gifted by evolution to only the mantis.

4. turtles

Humans might be suffering from coronary heart disease as a whole but not all vertebrates are affected by it. The red-eared slider turtle is immune from this disease. Heart tissue begins dying as soon as it's out of the body and isn't filled with blood. However, this turtle's tiny heart can live up to five days without his body. When there's no oxygen its heart rate just drops to about just 10 beats per minute from 25 beats. If the heart is inside the body the turtle functions fine and healthy.

3. Headless wasp flies

Wasps are insects and like we already know insects have a spread-out nervous system. They have a central brain with tiny brains called ganglions and few other places in their body.

A wasp somehow lost its head but not much was damaged since its body ganglions were fine and it could fly away after getting beheaded. It simply picks up its head and flew away. Nobody knows what it would do with that head, but this amount of determination can only be for insects.

2. Jellyfish

The jellyfish are a very peculiar creature that can literally live forever. They can even live after they die. To understand this, you need to know their life cycle. They start off by a fertilized egg then into a small larva called a planula. This microscopic worm can swim around. When the planula finds a solid surface, it starts to develop a digestive system and can start to feed itself, then creates a small colony of its own clones. Later it forms muscles and nerves and becomes an independent organism until it becomes an adult.

Its way of coping with any deadly situation or threat is to just go back into its life cycle and deep into the polyp stage. It can go back and forth in its life cycle to become what's best for its life.

Imagine if humans could go back and forth from babies to teens to adults technically these creatures can potentially live forever with this method.

1. Tardigrade

These are microscopic water bears. These creatures are evolution's best fighters and can be found anywhere from mud volcanoes to the deep seas. They're not picky which means they can live in extreme temperatures, and both ends of the extreme pressures too. In fact, they can withstand radiation dehydration as well as starvation, but the most surprising part is that they can stay alive in outer space. If that doesn't show you just how unkillable these creatures are nothing will!