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	Podcast:		Curiously Polar
	Episode:		084 Meet the Natives: The World's Toughest Animal
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:11:29
	Publish Date:		2020-01-20 23:00:00
	Description:		Being Antarctica’s largest native purely terrestrial animal, the Antarctic midge (Belgica antarctica) has the smallest genome in the insect kingdom. The holder of two Guinness Book of World Records entries spends more than half its life frozen. A better understanding of how it does survives freezing temperatures of up to -40 °C could have implications for human health.
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