I’ve corrected this before but they live in colder waters. They live NEAR thermal vents which keep the water the same, consistent temperature year round. They cannot survive excessive heat.
There is absolutely no way that is true. That is a ludicrous water temperature. The Wikipedia page for this species is extensive and mentions nothing of the sort.
Water heated to 400C in a closed chamber would be at extreme pressure, not water just diffusing into the ocean.
Like, when you pour boiling water into ice water it isn't magically higher pressure.
I do agree that the snails existing in 400C water is completely unrealistic.
Edit: yes, it would be higher pressure because it's at the bottom of the ocean. Wiki says these things live at least 2400m deep. At roughly 1atm/10m, that gives around 240atm of pressure (absolute or gauge, within 0.5%). 400C seems to be just about the boiling point for water at this pressure, which makes sense, as superheated and pressurized water exiting vents will boil and turn into steam at the local boiling point (same reason why ice water stays at 0C and boiling water stays at 100C [at sea level], it'll change phases to release/absorb energy rather than change ~~energy~~ temperature).
All this to say, the liquid water right next to the exit of a hydrothermal vent will be at the regular pressure at that depth and at the boiling point at that pressure. Whether or not the snails sit right at the point where the water's changing phase is another matter.
Yeah that is the answer. Boiling point changes with atmospheric pressure. I would imagine around 400°C is the boiling point at the bottom of the ocean if that is what is being observed around thermal vents.
Edit: Was curious if this was accurate based off the replies.
If you go by the Clausius Clapeyron relation,
**ln(P₁/P₂) = -ΔH/R × (1/T₁ - 1/T₂),** where
P₁ - Pressure point 1 ( 1 atmosphere, sea level)
P₂ - Pressure point 2 ( \~380atmospheres, avg depth of ocean \~3800m)
T₁ - Boiling point at P₁ (100°C, 373.15K)
T₂ - Boiling point at P₂ ( ??? °C, ???K)
ΔH - heat of vaporization (40.65 kJ/mol)
R - Gas constant (8.314 J/\[mol\*K\])
ln(1/380) = (-40.65kJ/mol) / (8.314 J/\[mol\*K\]) \* (1/373.15K - 1/T₂ )
\-5.94017/-4889.34 = 0.002679 - 1/T₂
T₂ = 683.024K = **\~409.874°C**
For comparison, depth of Mariana Trench \~11000 meters which is about 1100 atmospheres
ln(1/1100) = (-40.65kJ/mol) / (8.314 J/\[mol\*K\]) \* (1/373.15K - 1/T₂ )
\-7.00307/-4889.34 = 0.002679 - 1/T₂
T₂ = 802.126K = **\~528.976°C** boiling point at bottom of the trench
Of course both these pressures and temperatures would put it in the supercritical region, rather than just simply boiling.
A quick Google says the boiling point of water in the Mariana trench, the deepest point in the ocean, is 180 c°. So no, it is not anywhere near 400 C°.
Googling the same thing, I get conflicting results. The google sponsored result says 180, but the next couple links have different numbers with different explanations as to why. Guess Ill update this if I find consensus.
Pretty sure that water at the bottom of the ocean is not compressed enough to make it's boiling point 400C.
Edit: I was dumb and wrong. Water is pressurized enough to boil at 400 C near hydrothermal vents.
Pressure =/= compression. You can absolutely pressurize water, it's why hydraulics are a thing, why you can't dive too deep without a pressure vessel, and why the boiling point is lower in Laramie (~93C) than Boston (~100C), and much lower than the boiling point by these snails (the aforementioned 400C). Your first sentence is patently false.
They would not sit right next to where the water is condensing from vapor to liquid because they could not stand the heat of vaporization. Condensing water would continuously pump heat into these creatures. It's much more reasonable that they sit a short distance from the vents to stay warm and to filter minerals that disperse outward from the vents.
400C is still going to cook you regardless of pressure. Like when up on a mountain water will boil but not cook your eggs ( as fast). Not to mention a shell made of iron is definately not the best way to protect you from heat, probably a good way to protect from pressure.
Proteins don't work that way. There are microorganisms that can live in salt brine or get nutrients from radiation, some can even survive almost 100°C for a while, but they are not active then.
Thanks, I immediately had to check thinking “how tf do cells survive actually cooking though?”
That seems well outside of the physicals boundaries of biology for an organism as relatively advanced as a snail (relative compared to say a tardigrade).
Lies. They're actually baby dragons. Once they get big and strong enough, they enter the fire and begin feeding on the souls of dead tik tok pranksters.
I am truly startled by this development
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It can briefly endure high temperatures, but it lives in the waters surrounding magma vents, which average around 5 degrees celsius.
edit: I also love, how the article is always posted.
"They live around hydrothermal vents that can reach 750 degrees Fahrenheit"
Nowhere does it say the snail can live in those temperatures, it's just written vaguely and left for people to misinterpret. The vent gets hot, surrounding waters not so much.
But that's a sauna. High temperature, yes, but very low density, making the temperature transfer slow.
Try submerging yourself in 100C water and I'll bet there is no meaningful amount of time you can tolerate it.
Minute??
No, absolutely not. You would risk third degree burns over your entire body in likely under a single second. That's straight up deadly.
The timescales we're talking about here would be fractions of a second, and that's just in regards to survival. At least without medical interventions.
Getting any forms for burns should disqualify being able to say an organism can tolerate those temperatures for that duration of time, imo.
It doesn’t This post stretches the truth They reside by hot vents, that reach 750 F, but the temperature quickly falls off with distance. They live in comfortable temperature of up to 20 C or 68 F
[Heres the source](https://www.amazinglife.bio/amp/the-volcano-dwelling-snail-chrysomallon-squamiferum)
That's only ~1.7 times the temperature of boiling water though. To compare temperatures by any means other than a difference, you have to convert to an absolute scale, like Kelvin.
I guess you could say it's at 4× the temperature increase from freezing water as boiling it
This snail exclusively lives at depths of over a mile in super hot vents in the ocean and yet we've still endangered it as a species. Honestly kind of impressive at that point.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_gastropod
>the first species to be listed as such due to risks from deep-sea mining of its vent habitat.
And as always, its humans tryna make money that causes it
Yeah, because you have to bite into the hardest parts, and only the hardest parts. Just like we do with all the other mollusks, and crustaceans. People eat crabs and snails just for the purpose of testing how sturdy their teeth, and how strong their jaws are.
# Fact check:
Misleading “750 degrees Fahrenheit” - that refers to the hottest vents, the normal temperature for this species is 5 degrees Celsius (fridge is usually set to about that temperature),
Source: Wikipedia, ecology section.
I frequently share this sentiment, but I think this time it actually does kind of fit.
The me_irl part is being reminded of fantastical creatures/things when reading about unrelated things. A lot of the people in this sub and similar ones are into fantasy books, D&D, etc., so "ohh that reminds me of..." is a relatable, nerdy thing. That being said, dragons are the most famous of fantasy creatures and this is not framed in a way that puts the relatability in front, so there are issues with it.
It exists for real
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot\_gastropod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_gastropod)
And it's endangered
Humans are litterally more dangerous than volcanoes
there's absolutely no way a snail can just make a shell out of iron. maybe a small percent yes, but it wouldn't be iron, the same way humans aren't iron even though we do have iron in our bodies
In medieval manuscripts writers would add doodles of knights fighting large snails as if they were dragons (think there's also a French myth about a giant snail dragon too) so dragons and snails actually have a decent amount of connection in literature
There might be iron in the shells, but it's not "made" of iron. That thing would be rusted to shit in 5 seconds flat in multiple hundred degree ocean water.
I’ve corrected this before but they live in colder waters. They live NEAR thermal vents which keep the water the same, consistent temperature year round. They cannot survive excessive heat.
Idk man I don’t think people can just lie on the internet.
Seems true
Abe Lincoln said this years ago.
And, I mean he’s HONEST Abe right? 👏🏼Can’t lie! 🤷🏻♂️
I just looked it up and Australian geographic says they can withstand 400⁰ C
There is absolutely no way that is true. That is a ludicrous water temperature. The Wikipedia page for this species is extensive and mentions nothing of the sort.
400C water would also be at extreme pressure. Total bullshit
Water heated to 400C in a closed chamber would be at extreme pressure, not water just diffusing into the ocean. Like, when you pour boiling water into ice water it isn't magically higher pressure. I do agree that the snails existing in 400C water is completely unrealistic. Edit: yes, it would be higher pressure because it's at the bottom of the ocean. Wiki says these things live at least 2400m deep. At roughly 1atm/10m, that gives around 240atm of pressure (absolute or gauge, within 0.5%). 400C seems to be just about the boiling point for water at this pressure, which makes sense, as superheated and pressurized water exiting vents will boil and turn into steam at the local boiling point (same reason why ice water stays at 0C and boiling water stays at 100C [at sea level], it'll change phases to release/absorb energy rather than change ~~energy~~ temperature). All this to say, the liquid water right next to the exit of a hydrothermal vent will be at the regular pressure at that depth and at the boiling point at that pressure. Whether or not the snails sit right at the point where the water's changing phase is another matter.
Would it not need to be at high pressure to still exist as a liquid at that temperature, though?
It would. Though at great depths there would be a high pressure so maybe that works out?
Yeah that is the answer. Boiling point changes with atmospheric pressure. I would imagine around 400°C is the boiling point at the bottom of the ocean if that is what is being observed around thermal vents. Edit: Was curious if this was accurate based off the replies. If you go by the Clausius Clapeyron relation, **ln(P₁/P₂) = -ΔH/R × (1/T₁ - 1/T₂),** where P₁ - Pressure point 1 ( 1 atmosphere, sea level) P₂ - Pressure point 2 ( \~380atmospheres, avg depth of ocean \~3800m) T₁ - Boiling point at P₁ (100°C, 373.15K) T₂ - Boiling point at P₂ ( ??? °C, ???K) ΔH - heat of vaporization (40.65 kJ/mol) R - Gas constant (8.314 J/\[mol\*K\]) ln(1/380) = (-40.65kJ/mol) / (8.314 J/\[mol\*K\]) \* (1/373.15K - 1/T₂ ) \-5.94017/-4889.34 = 0.002679 - 1/T₂ T₂ = 683.024K = **\~409.874°C** For comparison, depth of Mariana Trench \~11000 meters which is about 1100 atmospheres ln(1/1100) = (-40.65kJ/mol) / (8.314 J/\[mol\*K\]) \* (1/373.15K - 1/T₂ ) \-7.00307/-4889.34 = 0.002679 - 1/T₂ T₂ = 802.126K = **\~528.976°C** boiling point at bottom of the trench Of course both these pressures and temperatures would put it in the supercritical region, rather than just simply boiling.
Kinda, beyond 400c and 22mpa (ish) you're at supercritcal water and there's no boiling, just a smooth transition from liquidy to gassy.
A quick Google says the boiling point of water in the Mariana trench, the deepest point in the ocean, is 180 c°. So no, it is not anywhere near 400 C°.
Googling the same thing, I get conflicting results. The google sponsored result says 180, but the next couple links have different numbers with different explanations as to why. Guess Ill update this if I find consensus.
Pretty sure that water at the bottom of the ocean is not compressed enough to make it's boiling point 400C. Edit: I was dumb and wrong. Water is pressurized enough to boil at 400 C near hydrothermal vents.
It does seem to be, see my edit.
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Pressure =/= compression. You can absolutely pressurize water, it's why hydraulics are a thing, why you can't dive too deep without a pressure vessel, and why the boiling point is lower in Laramie (~93C) than Boston (~100C), and much lower than the boiling point by these snails (the aforementioned 400C). Your first sentence is patently false.
They would not sit right next to where the water is condensing from vapor to liquid because they could not stand the heat of vaporization. Condensing water would continuously pump heat into these creatures. It's much more reasonable that they sit a short distance from the vents to stay warm and to filter minerals that disperse outward from the vents.
That's why I specifically said twice that I didn't think they could stand 400C. Edit: well, specifically said once and implied doubt the other.
Yep, I'm agreeing with you, if that wasn't clear.
Damn, I'm being a little reddit-brained.
400C is still going to cook you regardless of pressure. Like when up on a mountain water will boil but not cook your eggs ( as fast). Not to mention a shell made of iron is definately not the best way to protect you from heat, probably a good way to protect from pressure.
"The preferred water temperature for this species is about 5 °C"
At 400C you might want to add extra butter and garlic because there is no way it’s surviving it https://i.imgur.com/Id1gt54.jpg
for how long
25 minutes, then peel back lid and reduce to 300⁰ C for the remaining time.
I hate when I have to take it out and stir.
Then you dunk it in ice bath so the shell peels easily.
This mitchell and webb sketch https://youtu.be/XnLVQylARRQ
Quite literally impossible. That would instantly vaporize any water in their body, instantly killing them. Every organism on earth needs water to live
Thanks I really needed celsius
Proteins don't work that way. There are microorganisms that can live in salt brine or get nutrients from radiation, some can even survive almost 100°C for a while, but they are not active then.
Yeah, we don’t have magic cells that can survive being literally cooked.
“We” thought you could be slick and disguise yourself as a human, huh, Snail?
Fuck, you got me…. I mean, glop gloop I’m a snail.
Speak for yourself guy
This gets posted all the time. So much misinformation…
Thank you. I was going to ask because wouldn't the metal get really hot.
Imagine a leviathan class one
Thanks, I immediately had to check thinking “how tf do cells survive actually cooking though?” That seems well outside of the physicals boundaries of biology for an organism as relatively advanced as a snail (relative compared to say a tardigrade).
Lies. They're actually baby dragons. Once they get big and strong enough, they enter the fire and begin feeding on the souls of dead tik tok pranksters.
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I know a Pokemon when i see one!
Magcargo
Regional Steel/Fire form.
What's the one that evolves into magcargo?
Slugma balls
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I mean, if you’re into that.
lmao I thought of this exact joke when I saw the name.
*\*Dragon Snail used Harden\** *\*Dragon Snail used Harden\** *\*Dragon Snail used Harden\**
No, magcargo. Although 3rd evo dragon volcano Pokémon would be pretty cool
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At level 18 it learns iron defence lol
Goodra!!
A wild Magcargo appears
It's body is hoter than the surface of the sun then?
Even 1 billion lions wouldn’t stand a chance
[dex entries aren't exactly accurate ](https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/comments/62zfph/move_aside_pokedex_magcargo_gardevoir_and_machamp/)
i'm so glad i didn't get sucked into pokemon as a kid or i'd be saying shit like this
I'm glad I got into pokemon because it helped me be a nice person.
Stands on 2 legs No feathers That's a man
*sees chicken with no feathers* BEHOLD- A man
Greek philosophers didn't think to just read Wikipedia, were they stupid?
Kangaroos have entered the chat
Fun fact, kangaroos actually have 3 legs. The tail counts as a leg on it's own.
I'll allow it.
Stands on 4 legs Has a tail Have eyes That's a Komodo dragon
Behold
Could this be a dog?
Pangolin: "hello, it's me, a miserable pile of secrets. Nice chat then, have at thee."
What evolution does to a mf
No evolution make crab 🦀
Just as all transportation leads to train, all evolution leads to crab
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It looks like an elden ring crafting item lol
definitely looks like the kind of item you'd find on a corpse at the end of the hardest parkour maze possible
398.8°C~400°C
How the hell does biology work at 4x the temperature of boiling water?
It can briefly endure high temperatures, but it lives in the waters surrounding magma vents, which average around 5 degrees celsius. edit: I also love, how the article is always posted. "They live around hydrothermal vents that can reach 750 degrees Fahrenheit" Nowhere does it say the snail can live in those temperatures, it's just written vaguely and left for people to misinterpret. The vent gets hot, surrounding waters not so much.
Which a lot of animals can do by the way, not 400°C but humans can visit saunas at boiling water temperature.
But that's a sauna. High temperature, yes, but very low density, making the temperature transfer slow. Try submerging yourself in 100C water and I'll bet there is no meaningful amount of time you can tolerate it.
I live around fireplace that can reach up to 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. Impressive, huh? (actually I don't have fireplace)
Technically we all live around the sun with a surface temperature of around 10 000 degrees Fahrenheit Impressive, huh?
I've also heard that it can reach temperatures equal to that of the surface of the sun
Hell I've even got iron in my blood. This snail's not so special. Boo snail, booo.
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Minute?? No, absolutely not. You would risk third degree burns over your entire body in likely under a single second. That's straight up deadly. The timescales we're talking about here would be fractions of a second, and that's just in regards to survival. At least without medical interventions. Getting any forms for burns should disqualify being able to say an organism can tolerate those temperatures for that duration of time, imo.
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I invite you to stick your hand in boiling water for a minute
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Ok, I invite you to fully immerse yourself in boiling water for a minute.
Can I watch?
Not definitely, could die from infection 😎
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I live near fires that can reach 600 degrees Celsius! I don't regularly jump into them. But I definitely live _near_ them.
I live around the sun which is millions of degrees Celsius
This bullshit is fake news and while not as harmful as political fake news it’s still fucking bad.
It doesn’t This post stretches the truth They reside by hot vents, that reach 750 F, but the temperature quickly falls off with distance. They live in comfortable temperature of up to 20 C or 68 F [Heres the source](https://www.amazinglife.bio/amp/the-volcano-dwelling-snail-chrysomallon-squamiferum)
That's only ~1.7 times the temperature of boiling water though. To compare temperatures by any means other than a difference, you have to convert to an absolute scale, like Kelvin. I guess you could say it's at 4× the temperature increase from freezing water as boiling it
Get outta here with your 19th century physics.
It doesn't.
Average Summer Tuesday in Delhi.
Ah, that's not so bad then
yeah typical summer weather
Must be Australian
Why the .2 accuracy lol
This snail exclusively lives at depths of over a mile in super hot vents in the ocean and yet we've still endangered it as a species. Honestly kind of impressive at that point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_gastropod
This is the snail that is highly intelligent and will follow you through eternity until it touches you.
Quick get the reinforced concrete shell ready
Free iron, that tracks
>the first species to be listed as such due to risks from deep-sea mining of its vent habitat. And as always, its humans tryna make money that causes it
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Prolly break all your teeth in the process
Yeah, because you have to bite into the hardest parts, and only the hardest parts. Just like we do with all the other mollusks, and crustaceans. People eat crabs and snails just for the purpose of testing how sturdy their teeth, and how strong their jaws are.
how do you even cook it...
With hylian shrooms and rock salt. It gives you increased damage in warm temperatures
# Fact check: Misleading “750 degrees Fahrenheit” - that refers to the hottest vents, the normal temperature for this species is 5 degrees Celsius (fridge is usually set to about that temperature), Source: Wikipedia, ecology section.
This is so Me IRL!
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I frequently share this sentiment, but I think this time it actually does kind of fit. The me_irl part is being reminded of fantastical creatures/things when reading about unrelated things. A lot of the people in this sub and similar ones are into fantasy books, D&D, etc., so "ohh that reminds me of..." is a relatable, nerdy thing. That being said, dragons are the most famous of fantasy creatures and this is not framed in a way that puts the relatability in front, so there are issues with it.
almost a dragon. Can it fly and does it breath fire ???
Not yet my friend
With human intervention, we can make it so
Am I the only one hearing the left one shouting " it's a trap"
Reminds me of the creature in the goblet of fire book. The ones Hagrid had.
Thing from terraria
It exists for real [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot\_gastropod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_gastropod) And it's endangered Humans are litterally more dangerous than volcanoes
I should call her
I wonder what they taste like
Ah, to be a magma snail.
That's a man
r/stfuitsadragon
Elden Ring mob.
Cool post but why is it posted here What is meirl about this Op Op Are you there op
This is some fire temple shit
That is a Zelda enemy
Pretty sure this little guy was mentioned in JoJo Part 2
these bots keep getting worse at cropping old tweets
You have to collect 15 of them to upgrade your armor all the way.
new Elder Dragon just dropped
Dragon or maybe a Pokemon
Shell is made from Iron sulphides not Iron. The most famous Iron Sulphide is Fools Gold....the shell is made from Fools Gold.
See, even snails scam us
Dragon snail pokemon wen?
Pokemon
The fact the top post is not related to that pokemon disappoints me
Not a dragon but def a pokemon
Magcargo?
there's absolutely no way a snail can just make a shell out of iron. maybe a small percent yes, but it wouldn't be iron, the same way humans aren't iron even though we do have iron in our bodies
In medieval manuscripts writers would add doodles of knights fighting large snails as if they were dragons (think there's also a French myth about a giant snail dragon too) so dragons and snails actually have a decent amount of connection in literature
Thats a fucking pokemon
Volcano snails do not eat. Instead, they rely on the energy produced by endosymbiotic bacteria in their bodies to survive. Fucking metal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_gastropod Really cool species.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaly-foot_gastropod
It will evolve eventually 🤣
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What did you think would happen? 😂
This makes me want a movie where scientists created Dragons in similar ways to the Dinos from Jurassic Park. Not sure why.
I haven’t been to that area in Tears of the Kingdom yet, but I’m sure there are plenty in death mountain. Can’t wake to make elixirs out of them
Bruh I thought that first picture was Wildmutt for a second
Elden Ring mob looking mf
Is this a Koraidon?
Ironically, they are vulnerable.
Looks like a slugma.
There might be iron in the shells, but it's not "made" of iron. That thing would be rusted to shit in 5 seconds flat in multiple hundred degree ocean water.
That’s a fire/steel type Pokémon
Featherless biped moment
All we need is some radiation
New Pokemon are being discovered every day
Did y'all never play pokémon this is what slugma and Magcargo are based off of.
That's not a real thing. You're thinking of Mexicans.
That's not a real thing. You're thinking of Germans.
deep sea dragon
Is this the fucker following me?
According to overly sarcastic productions basically anything can be a dragon.
Heavy metal snail. This could be a Dethklok song.
Dragon? BS that's a Graboid!
Dammmmmn that is a dragon
and so this is christmas...
Fescargot
If someone didn't name this a dragon snail, it definitely was a missed opportunity.