Zoologists Cannot Believe It: They Discover a Worm that Lives in the Toxic Soil of Volcanoes

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When we think of animals near a volcano, the most logical thing is to believe that they burn. Heat, gases and scorching soil do not seem compatible with life, but this case shows that the reality is very different. An international team of researchers has documented that a worm can live in a soil literally "cooked" by geothermal activity. In the Furnas volcano, on the island of São Miguel (Azores), the Amynthas gracilis worm thrives on land that…