Six animals that survive the harshest conditions

One of the things you learn in science class is that nature tries to constantly kill, says the RealClear. However, there are creatures that, in the face of the most adverse conditions to life, hardly would die. Meet them here.

1. Devil's Worm

Survives: high temperature, lack of oxygen and high pressure

This species of organisms, which belongs to the phylum of nemátodas, and was only discovered in 2011, was found more than 3.5 kilometres deep. These bodies spend their entire lives in total darkness, feeding on water with more than 12 thousand years and minor bugs.

2. Himalayan jumping spider

Survives: low pressures, low temperatures

The spider-flyer of the Hiamalias is the animal that lives the highest altitude, about 6.6 kilometres above sea level. Can survive long periods without feeding and face temperatures well below zero degrees Celsius. It is also prepared to face low atmospheric pressures. The only power supply of this animal are small insects, which are pushed to high altitudes by the wind.

3. the immortal jellyfish

Survives: natural process of aging

This jellyfish has the ability to return to childhood vis-à-vis adverse conditions, making it theoretically immortal. According to the studies done on this species of jellyfish, there seems to be no limit of times for this regression of age. However, to return to the early days of life, these animals become vulnerable to disease and predators.

4. Red Beetle flat carapace

Survives a: negative temperatures

This insect, native to places like Alaska and Canada, manages to survive the freezing temperatures, up to about minus 150 degrees Celsius. This beetle produces a protein that prevents the blood freeze. In turn, this animal's blood is enriched with glycerol that slows down the freezing process.

5. the Pompeii worm

Survives: high temperatures, large temperature fluctuations

This worm oceans lives exclusively in deep hydrothermal vents. When Hunt, Pompeii worms leave the lower half of his body inside of the hydrothermal vent, which means that the tail is subject to temperatures in the range of 80 degrees Celsius, while the head stays out of the source, then to a much lower temperature. Is a coating on the surface of bacteria, specialized body which allows this to be subject to large temperature fluctuations.

6.Tardígrado

Survive: almost everything

The tardigrada are a small phylum of segmented animals, relatives of arthropods, known popularly as bears waterline. Of millimetric scale, these beings can live in almost any conditions. Can about living at temperatures between zero and 149 degrees Celsius, the atmospheric pressures higher than 1200 normal. Also survives to dehydration, since you can spend ten years without water. As for the radiation, supports a lethal dose 1,000 times higher than the lethal dose for humans. To test the resilience of the tardígrado, in 2007, referred to Real Clear, a group of scientists sent these beings into space. The animals are back completely unharmed. When observed under a microscope, these beings have a strangely adorable.

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