Super Natural by Alex Riley review – the creatures that can survive anywhere

Super Natural by Alex Riley review – the creatures that can survive anywhere

From moss piglets to radioactive horses – a survey of animals’ extraordinary adaptations to extreme environmentsAtop the gloop that swirls on subterranean pools in Romania’s Movile cave, a host of mostly translucent, unseeing creatures scrabbles around. These singular beasties – centipedes, spiders, scorpions, leeches, snails and woodlice – derive their daily nutrients from slimy mats of sulphur-loving bacteria that thrive in the oxygen-poor atm…