Unlike humans animals can live in very tough terrain
they live in swamps sewers deserts rainforests and
jungles but one of the most hardcore places you'll find animals has to be
inside volcanoes you may think that anything living in a
volcano would simply burn up in the lava but
that's not the case in fact many creatures defy
all logic and live inside these flaming lava pits
pyrococcus furiosas no that's not a magic spell instead it's
a living microscopic organism it's known as a
hypothermophile which means it loves heat
these were aptly discovered in volcano island in italy
in order for these to live and thrive they have to be in boiling hot
temperatures they can live from 70 to 130 degrees
centigrade or 158 to 217 degrees fahrenheit
what comes out of volcanoes is very nutrient dense substances
this is a great food source for the animal and there's also thought to be
millions if not billions of these things in volcanoes
that's because every 37 minutes the number of these
doubles this means it has population growth more than almost any other animal
these are currently being used by food scientists
they're making heat resistant crops which means that in countries with
droughts plants don't need that much water to
grow so this volcano dwelling creature may end up saving
millions of lives happy face spider you may think that there's nothing
scarier than a spider but what about a spider which can live
in volcanoes well that's exactly the situation for the happy face spider from
hawaii they're normally found in rainforests
where volcanoes are some volcanoes have vegetation growing
off the sides and that's where you'll find these
smiley spiders they can live in places where a few and i went to we would burn
up however if there was ever a volcanic
eruption these guys would be wiped out it's safe to say their habitat is not
the most secure in the world but they're willing to live in this
scary place because of the cooling lava many plants grow out of this cooling
lava which attracts the happy face spider
these plants also attract flies which is a great food source for the happy face
spider they normally hide on the back of leaves
near the magma waiting for flies to land and then they trap them in webs
it's pretty ironic that this ruthless and dangerous animal has a friendly
smile on its back sharks we've all seen the movie
sharknado this is where natural disasters and
sharks come together to create chaos in los
angeles but that's just a movie right well not necessarily
sharks and natural disasters sometimes do team up
remember forms of sharks were around at the same time as dinosaurs
and the reason why they're still here today is because they are geniuses when
it comes to adapting according to brennan phillips they can
even adapt to volcanoes a shark was found inside an active water
volcano these volcanoes are just as hot and
dangerous as an above-ground volcano the only difference is they're
underground and can cause water spouts just like in sharknado
phillips and his team caught one of these on camera using a special device
they had to build this from scratch because the water was way too hot for
them to go anywhere near inside the volcano they also found some
forms of crabs and sea snakes they also caught the third ever footage
of the sleeper shark this baffled experts as sleeper sharks
are never found in the solomon islands where phillips was
normally they're found in antarctica japan and sometimes tasmania this meant
this volcano sleeper shark was 2 000 miles away from where it normally is
i think it's safe to say sharks just got 10 times
scarier microorganisms are found pretty much everywhere from
the icy terrain of the north pole to the dry deserts of death valley you
can find microorganisms at places where normal animals and humans could never go
microorganisms also exist at the deepest part of the ocean marianas trench and
even near the earth's core but did you know they can also be found
inside volcanoes as well they can live in temperatures up to 96
degrees celsius or 205 degrees fahrenheit one hotspot for
microorganisms is the hot springs of yellowstone
national park if you went for a swim in there then it
would be like a human stew you likely wouldn't make it but
microorganisms do live inside these volcanoes
this is a special microorganism named clostridium paradoxim
they're able to not only survive but thrive in heat because of the enzymes
they have most human or animal dna would actually
unravel in this heat because of thousands of years of
adaptation these microorganisms now need the heat to survive
much like the pyrococus from before this is a thermophile
right now scientists are using these to try and work out how we could survive on
other planets like mars similar microorganisms have been found
on the stratovolcano lucliaco this area is thought to be the most
mars-like place on earth so these volcano-dwelling microorganisms
may well be the key to helping us live on the red planet one day six skill
stingray this stingray is also known as the
goblin of the sea but these have been found inside active
volcanoes this is in the volcano hotspot of the
world papua new guinea crabs fish and shark forms were also
found in these volcanoes and right now it's actually unknown as
to how these survive in such terrible environments the waters are so
murky because of the smoke they can barely see
there's also boiling and toxic fumes and the fact that the water's so hot here it
may as well be in a stingray soup if you swam down here you wouldn't even
be able to see the hands in front of your face
but somehow the six skill stingray is able to live here and also hunt and give
birth too that's right even baby six skill
stingrays can survive the heat of underwater volcanoes of
course in these waters they don't have many predators because no one wants to
go here but they're also some of the most acidic
waters on planet earth pink slug this creature is also known as
the hot pink slug or the neon pink slug some say it looks like a flaming hot
cheeto come to life but you can actually find these in
sydney australia these slugs often live on the sides of
volcanoes these came into existence 17 million years ago
this was when a massive volcanic eruption in australia decimated the area
only super adaptable animals like the pink slug could survive
and some biologists say that pink slugs could have been around for 180 million
years but sadly these pink slugs may soon be
extinct australia has been getting a lot hotter
recently and this dries out the slug's natural moist habitat
and right now many are trying to get these listed as an endangered animal
it would be pretty ironic if these went extinct after 180 million years
and all because the temperature rose even when they live near volcanoes
bosavi woolly rat rats live in very bad conditions for example sewers in new
york but in papua new guinea you can find
giant rats inside volcanoes these woolly rats are the size of a
house cat these creepy creatures like volcanoes because of the volcanically
fertilized vegetation polycantworm these are also known as
predator worms that's because these hunter rainbow worms eat many insects
it's also one of the toughest creatures in the world it lives in volcanic waters
which would cook me or you they've lasted through five mass
extinctions over the course of 500 million years
these guys also have to avoid other giant creatures which live near them
volcano rabbit these tiny rabbits weigh about one pound and are the second
smallest rabbit species on earth they live only in mexico around four
volcanoes guarding mexico city they like living at high altitudes and
they live off the volcanically produced nutrient-rich vegetation
lohi shrimp you can find these near the northern mariana islands off the coast
of guam if you go there there's a gigantic
volcano which is 12 stories tall all around the edge of this volcano are
bodies of animals who went too close but one animal that can live here is the
lohi shrimp they live here so that no predators can
get to them they live and thrive in the bacteria-rich waters
and creepily they feed off of all of the other animals which the volcano takes
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