The Swarm is upon us...

btw the reason why i think its bacterias and not an animal is that i cant imagine how an animal would be able to thrive under such conditions. I wonder if they eat our waste if then we can eat their waste....?

 

easy to imagine how an animal could exist and thrive there, rats and mice live in sewers easily.

Animals can adapt to live in almost every possible environment on Earth. Deep sea trenches have pressures hundreds of times greater than the air around us, yet many animals have been able to adapt and live there. Small organisms can live inside geysers and deep sea smokers, where the water is boiling.

 

I had a similar conversation with Sodium a bit ago: in the situations where the more extreme thermophiles live, the water can be hotter than 100C, but isn't boiling because of the extreme pressure.

Also, the large majority of (but not all) extremeophiles are indeed not animals, but members of Archaea, which are all single-celled organisms.