The Hardcore Crickets That Only Live on Bare Lava

Build your own website today at https://wix.com/go/scishow. Some animals live in pretty extreme places, but the lava cricket might be the most hardcore of them all. These crickets have only been observed right after volcanic eruptions, and scientists have questions, like “How does a flightless insect appear on freshly-cooled lava?” Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pdf/20%282%29-133.pdf https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/these-intrepid-crickets-hawaii-s-lava-home-sweet-home https://books.google.ca/books?id=4LswmjBnlJMC&pg=PA259&lpg=PA259&dq=Caconemobius+fori&source=bl&ots=eVpMAvzIzr&sig=ACfU3U2i6BewNUtSgPk0b9-meV0FEyPa4g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjCtMKvxtfhAhXHu54KHaykBSg4ChDoATABegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=Caconemobius%20fori&f=false https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2019/03/25/hawaii-news/on-the-hunt-for-lava-crickets/ IMAGE SOURCES: Credit: William P. Mull, 1974. Copyright © Bishop Museum https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/abstract-magma-texture-gm1077643600-288678388 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Thurston_Lava_Tube.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dry-lava-in-bali-indonesia-gm1150406781-311398203 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ropy_Pahoehoe_Lava_at_Kilauea_Volcano_in_Hawaii_20071209_A.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/aerial-photos-of-volcano-lava-flow-on-big-island-of-hawaii-gm924266248-253663066 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_lower_Puna_eruption#/media/File:USGS_K%C4%ABlauea_multimediaFile-2062.jpg