This bone regrows a metre of itself from scratch every single year

Deer antlers are true bone, yet they can lengthen by up to 2.5cm a day — over 300 times faster than a human growth plate — before being shed and regrown from nothing the following year. A dense pool of stem-like cells at the tip drives the sprint, making antler the fastest-growing bone tissue known in any mammal.

— Standard biological accounts; Guinness World Records (fastest-growing mammalian tissue), Antler — Cervidae antler cycle

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