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Ep. 362: First Lite and the Cosmos

The MeatEater Podcast

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Spear Fishing in 15 Thousand Feet of Water

The deep, deep calson told with this new thing they found. A type of snail that was discovered then. It hangs out in an area that is what every other form of life would consider not hospitable. There's sulphuric acid, there's all these gases. Ah, it is an extreme place, hence, extreme oile. And this little snail with the iron, the iron foot, is really, really bizarre,. Because how it eats is, it holds a chemical compound in its throat., and by basely breathing in the toxic water around it, that chemical compound reacts with it, and it's able to extract its nutrients from whatever spits out of that compound

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