The California brown sea hare has some of the biggest brain cells in the animal kingdom. The bacterium Shewanella oneidensis can live with or without oxygen.
What they share, beyond the possession of remarkable traits, is that their DNA is included among thousands of patents owned by BASF, which calls itself "the largest chemical producer in the world".
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