From creepy fish with big fangs to big ole sharks, here are 9 tough animals that actually live inside volcanoes!!
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9. Snaggletooth Dragonfish.
These critters are like something out of a nightmare. The snaggletooth dragonfish - or as it’s also called, scaleless blackfish - is creepy and kind of weird like a worm but it’s got the bite of a shark. Maybe not quite but they have big sharp teeth. They’re actually no bigger than a fingertip and look more like a leech than a fish. Australian explorers came upon these guys when they were investigating a volcano.
8. Pacific Sleeper Shark
If you think about it on a large scale, it honestly makes sense (to an extent) for certain small creatures to live near volcanoes or in volcanoes because of what they provide. However, if you were to think of large creatures, like sharks, you wouldn't have that. They don't NEED what the volcano provides, and it certainly wouldn't be the most suitable habitat for them, right?
7. Thermophiles
In regards to truly living INSIDE of a volcano, especially near the hottest points of it, it may seem impossible that it could happen, and yet, there are a group of microorganisms known as Thermophiles that prove that this is not only NOT impossible, but they seem to thrive in it.
6. Bristle Worms
While it may sound like volcanoes only come in one type, there are actually several. There are ones above water and below water (with the below water ones being much more numerous), there are ones that spew lava, and there are ones that shoot out hot mud and gas, these are known as mud volcanoes.
5. The Mt. Saint Helens Ecosystem
It's somewhat easy to look at the individual creatures that can reside on a singular volcano either above or below ground depending on location. But what gets missed at times is that there are entire ecosystems that surround active and inactive volcanoes to this day. It's just mentioned as much because most times these animals are next to people in the world and thus it's deemed "safe" to live there, but there are exceptions, like in Montana via Mt. Saint Helens.
4. Eyeless Shrimp
There's more to a volcano than the main mass that you see above or below water, for there are pockets, or vents, that are also there and they have a whole host of life in them and around them. A discovery there helped prove that shrimp are very common in these areas, even before and after the volcano itself has erupted.
3. Sixgill Stingray
Amidst the shocking discovery that sharks could live in a volcanic habitat, there was also the discovery of another strange animal that you wouldn’t expect. Stingrays! (and other types of ray). The stingray was discovered to be near the Kavachi volcano alongside his shark friends during the expedition to the Solomon Islands. The sixgill is flat like most other species of stingray but is defined by its long snout which it uses to graze for food and find the best morsels.
2. Lolhi Shrimp
There are many shrimp species that are known to live near volcanic sites in one form or another, and one of the most famous ones of all is the Lolhi Shrimp. Unlike various other kinds of shrimp, the Lolhi Shrimp don't just react to being there, they have grown in evolutionary ways to help themselves survive in the climate and ecosystem, and they aren't alone in that desire to evolve in order to survive:
1. Humanity
On the whole, it may seem ludicrous that humanity would even risk trying to live in or near a volcano. However, as is the case with the world, sometimes the most inexplicable things can happen if the situation is dire enough, and that means that humanity could live in or near a volcano if the situation required it.
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