Usually we eat sea shrimp rice or river shrimp as long as the boiling water inside a little white burn, immediately open to eat.

Have you ever seen such a shrimp?

In 2011, British scientists discovered a new population of deep-sea shrimp in a crack in the seabed at a depth of about 5,000 meters, which live on the rocks around the seafloor volcanic springs, with as many as 2,000 per square meter.

This legendary shrimp is called the Super Thermotolerant Shrimp, and as the name suggests, it can live in temperatures as high as 450 degrees, and not only will it not be cooked, but it will also live and breathe.

This shrimp also has another name, white blind shrimp, which has a white appearance but is particularly poor vision.

The reason for the blind shrimp is, of course, that the eyes have deteriorated, which is true of almost all deep-sea creatures. In the deep sea there is no sunlight can be refracted into, long eyes are also long in vain, in the dark sea floor, can not see the five fingers, have a pair of bright eyes are not useful. Therefore, the white blind shrimp evolved a luminescent apparatus on its back, which can be used to determine the direction and distance of the crater, so as to avoid getting too close and scald itself to death.

Just because a volcano spews hot springs that can reach 450 doesn't mean that white blind shrimp live in water that hot.

In fact, when the hot springs erupt from the crater, there is a heat exchange with the surrounding seawater, which cools itself down and warms the seawater. Surviving in such an environment, the white blind shrimp will be a little more heat-resistant than the average shrimp, but that is to survive in a few tens of degrees, and will never be able to withstand too high a temperature. Compare this to the fact that most of the white blind shrimp's body is made up of proteins, and proteins can denature when exposed to high temperatures.

If the white blind shrimp is poured into boiling water, it will obviously turn into a "red blind shrimp".

But that doesn't mean the white blind shrimp is safe to eat. It lives near volcanic craters and feeds on bacteria, microbes, and minerals from hot springs, and its body contains a lot of toxins.

Then there's the fact that it grows 5,000 meters deep in the ocean, which is a bit of a price to pay.

Let's pretend we've never heard of this shrimp.