Do any animals live in lava?

A curious variety of animals nourish themselves off chemicals released by an eruption. Despite the conditions, their populations thrive and grow. There are shrimp and crabs that feed off the nutrients in hardened lava.
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What animals live near lava?

The species include two kinds of shrimp (loihi, which were previously known from active Hawaii volcanoes, and another species that has yet to be named), limpets, barnacles and crabs.
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Can sharks swim in lava?

Kavachi is active, and eruptions are common. But the sharks are not scared off by the underwater explosions or submarine boiling lava. It is theorized this may be due to special pores near their snouts, called ampullae of Lorenzini, which scientists believe allow them to sense changes in Earth's magnetic field.
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Do fish live in lava?

The fishes that we see on all but the shallowest Okeanos Explorer dives live in the habitats of these extinct volcanic lava flows – they are volcano fish. Some live near active volcanoes as well as on extinct features.
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Can sharks live in volcanoes?

The very active Kavachi volcano in the Solomon Islands is being called a sharkcano, because scientists found sharks living in its crater.
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Are there bugs that live in lava?

The lava cricket, Caconemobius fori—'ūhini nēnē pele in Hawaiian—is, according to many biologists, the first multicellular life form to take up residence on new Hawaiian lava flows. How this poorly understood insect manages to thrive in a harsh, sterile landscape when virtually nothing else can is a mystery.
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Is there an animal that can live forever?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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What animal has 32 brains?

Leech has 32 brains. A leech's internal structure is segregated into 32 separate segments, and each of these segments has its own brain. Leech is an annelid.
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What animal has no brain?

Almost all animals have a brain, but there are a few exceptions. There is one organism that has no brain or nervous tissue of any kind: the sponge. Sponges are simple animals, surviving on the sea floor by taking nutrients into their porous bodies.
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What animal does not forget?

An elephant never forgets!" Have you ever heard that saying before? It's a common saying, and people have believed that elephants have incredible memories for a long time.
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Can cockroaches survive lava?

Molten lava and hot ashes may have what it takes to annihilate roaches in large numbers. For example, United Academics reported that a rare bioluminescent cockroach lived only on a single volcano in central Ecuador.
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What is lava animal?

The lava bear (also known as sand lapper, dwarf grizzly, and North American sun bear) is a variety of American black bear (Ursus americanus) found in the lava beds of south central Oregon. The animal was described as a very small bear with wooly light brown fur.
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What lives in Hawaii lava tubes?

The lava tubes are occupied by communities of cave-adapted arthropod species, such as planthoppers, millipedes and spiders, which are sustained by the roots of the native ʻōhiʻa tree. The lava tube species on Hawaiʻi Island are found nowhere else in the world.
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Can anything walk on lava?

As long as you can bear the heat, it means lava is strong enough for you to walk on it. If your shoes start taking fire, just move away!
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Can you throw garbage into a volcano?

Beyond temperature, there are other good reasons not to burn our trash in volcanoes. First, although lava at 2,000 degrees F can melt many materials in our trash — including food scraps, paper, plastics, glass and some metals — it's not hot enough to melt many other common materials, including steel, nickel and iron.
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Can you look inside a volcano?

While it's impossible to know what an active volcano looks like inside because you – and anything you try to put down inside it – would be burned up in seconds, you can descend 120 meters in to the magma chamber of the dormant Thrihnukagigur volcano in Iceland with Inside the Volcano.
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Can Tardigrades live in lava?

Tardigrades are semi-aquatic. They can survive in watery as well as terrestrial environments — from oceans and lakes to mountains, forests and sand dunes. They're found all over the world, from frigid Antarctic glaciers to active lava fields.
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What is a lava fish?

The Lava Devilfish is a species of Fish caught only in The Devil's Roar. It is a form of consumable Food, and can be cooked for healing effects.
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Do animals live on volcanoes?

In 2009, Oregon State University researchers found shrimp, crab, limpets and barnacles living around a highly active volcano near Guam. Pacific Sleeper sharks are found in the North Pacific from Japan to Mexico. They're considered non-aggressive and live really deep, so they're often difficult to see.
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Can a cockroach drown?

Roaches can die in water. Like any air-breathing creature, if they're fully submerged in water and unable to come up for air, they will eventually drown. They do not possess gills or organs that would allow them to filter oxygen into their bodies, despite being surrounded by water.
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Do roaches scream?

Certainly, seeing a cockroach can elicit high-pitched screams from an unsuspecting homeowner late at night. However, the most common species, the American and German roaches, are generally acknowledged to be silent.
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Can cockroaches get in your brain?

The cockroach was living in the woman's skull close to her brain, and was squirming when doctors removed it. “It was alive. And it didn't seem to want to come out,” Dr. M N Shankar, head ENT at Stanley Medical College Hospital in Chennai, India, told the Times of India.
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Do elephants really cry?

While this may look superficially like emotional "crying", it occurs simply because elephants have lost the normal mammalian structures that drain excess moisture away from their eyes; without a true lacrimal structure, elephants are physically unable to produce emotional tears.
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Can an elephant remember you?

An elephant never forgets

It is not easy to measure with precision the memory span of an elephant; many working elephants can learn and remember a large number of commands. They also appear to recognise many humans, as well as individuals of their own species – even when separated from them for decades.
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