Jim Holsenback wrote:

> Mother nature is pretty amazing  isn't she?

Amazing... terrifying... one or he other. (My mum is still creeped out 
by the 4-foot millipede that catches and eats live bats.)

> I saw a piece on a very small tree frog that borrows into ground and it's 
> actually frozen there until the spring thaw.

Yeah. I think that's the Andean frog I mentioned.

It's cells have antifreeze, and the intercellular space has a chemical 
which *prmotes* freezing. The net result is that the space between the 
cells freezes, but the cells themselves do not. In essense, the animal 
becomes a colony of single-celled organisms for a few months.

> The opposite end of the spectrum ... those tube worms living near those 
> volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean.
> 
> Like I said life is an unstoppable force.

There are bacteria that live *in* those volcanic vents, never mind 
"near" them. ;-)

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