Top 5 Microorganisms That SHOULDN'T Exist 🦠

Indexed: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]One of these microorganisms literally produces solid gold. Number five, Geobacter, [music] microbes that live in dirt and produce electricity. Scientists are studying them to power small electronics with nothing but soil bacteria. Number four, the zombie ant fungus. It infects ants, takes over their brain, forces them to climb to high places, then bursts out of their head to spread out spores. [music] The Last of Us video game is based on this.

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[00:00:24]Number three, Deinococcus radiodurans, nicknamed Conan the Bacterium. It survives 1,000 [music] times more radiation than a human. NASA is studying it to figure out how life could survive on Mars. Number two, tardigrades, microscopic creatures that can survive in space, the vacuum, the radiation, the freezing temperatures.

[00:00:42]They've literally been launched into orbit and came back alive. Pause and let me know in the comments if you've heard of any of these before. And number one, Cupriavidus metallidurans, a bacteria that eats toxic metals and excretes them as solid gold particles. This is real alchemy. Nature found a way to turn poison into treasure.