A Hot Tub Is Too Cold for It. This Amoeba Divides at 63 Degrees. - Video

Incendiamoeba cascadensis was collected from geothermal streams in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, between 2023 and 2025, and described this week in Cell by the Oliverio lab at Syracuse University with the DOE Joint Genome Institute, UCSF and HHMI.
It divides at 63 °C, stays motile to 64 °C, and stops growing below 42 °C — the previous accepted ceiling for any cell with a nucleus was 60 °C.
Search the species name or the Cell paper (DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2026.08.043) to read it yourself.

Images: USGS

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