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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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