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Could tardigrades survive in lava?

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To survive, there would need to be a means by which to survive. On the surface of the question, your asking if tardigrades could withstand indefinite naked contact immersed in red-hot lava. read more

Starting with the vast quantity of tardigrades, if a water source could provide enough to keep water droplets available for the Leidenfrost effect, I could definitely see a vector of logic that would leave the resulting landscape with a viable tardigrade population after lava eruption. read more

Nothing can live in hot lava. It is at about 1200*C which would kill anything. Lava is also very heavy so can crush things, There are plenty of materials that have a melting point above that, and so would not be melted. A fire brick, for example, would not melt, so would survive. read more

Tardigrades, already made of indestructible win, have shown up again in the scientific weirdness Hall of Fame this week, thanks to a new study that sequenced the first tardigrade genome and found that 17.5% of it came from other species. read more

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