11 Amazing Animals That Improve Your Health

The words "drug development" may conjure images of white-coated scientists, working at benches with pipettes and petri dishes.

But the real experiments have been occurring in nature for millennia, where life on land and sea has developed distinct chemical methods of survival -- from capturing their prey to identifying disease-causing microbes.

Thus far, humans have tapped a small but successful portion of the resulting cornucopia of compounds with the potential to cure disease.

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