# The invincible species that survives the hellish lake Credits: NatronĮveryone thinks that this is the infernal lake or the lake of death, but a species of animal manages to survive the chemical composition of Lake Natron.
This is how when animals, especially bats and birds, touch the water of Lake Tanzania, the minerals inside begin to turn them into stone, trapping them in the position they took before they touched the cursed lake. This substance makes the waters of the lake have the same properties of ammonia with a pH between 9 and 10.5 and a temperature of about 60 ✬, creating an environment so corrosive that almost no animal can survive. Lake Natron is called this way because of the presence of the natural compound of sodium carbonate hydrate (in fact Natron) within its waters. # Natron: the sodium carbonate hydrate that kills Credits: Natron However, you should not imagine the classic blue lake, but rather a basin of reddish water with deep white streaks typical color of those lakes rich in sodium and often subject to evaporation cycles. The lake that turns animals into stone is called Lake Natron and is located in northern Tanzania, in the African Rift Valley at about 600m altitude. THE LAKE that turns ANIMALS into STONE # The Lake of Death Credits: natron This time, however, we are not talking about magic, but only about nature. It might remember one of the punishments of some evil witch, when then the good protagonist always comes to save the poor creatures. Live Science describes the dead animals as having “chalky sodium carbonate deposits outlining their bodies.A mix between a horror film scene and reality, yet there really is a lake that turns animals into stone.
“A calcified flamingo, preserved by the highly basic waters of Tanzania’s Lake Natron and photographed by Nick Brandt,” reads National Geographic’s caption of one of the photos included in the Facebook post. The photographs included in the post were taken by photographer Nick Brandt in 2013, who collected the animal carcasses around the lake’s shoreline and posed them for the pictures, the outlet reported. The dead animals in the photos were not instantly turned to stone by the lake, but rather became calcified due to the characteristics of the lake, according to National Geographic. “Any animal which touches the lake turns into stone.” (RELATED: Does This Image Show A Heart-Shaped Pond In Zimbabwe?)
“Natron Lake in Tanzania is the most (sic) deadliest place for animals,” reads text included in the image. The image shows what appears to be the petrified remains of two birds sitting on a body of water. An image shared on Facebook claims it turns any animal that touches it to stone. Lake Natron in Tanzania is a saltwater lake with a pH of 10.5 (nearly as high as that of ammonia) and temperatures up to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
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