Grab a drink, this is a very long video but so worth watching!!!
Is it possible to live in temperatures over 175°F? It is if you're a Pompeii worm. The Pompeii worm, the most heat-tolerant animal on Earth, lives in the deep ocean at super-heated hydrothermal vents. Covering this deep-sea worm's back is a fleece of bacteria. These microbes contain all the genes necessary for life in extreme environments.
Giant tubeworms
Yeti crabs. These guys it seems farmed sulfur eating bacteria for food on their hairy arms. A whole ecology based on chemosynthesis.
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