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What kind of life forms would most likely survive in a highly polluted world?

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And what would be their general ecological charecteristics?

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  1. radiotrophic fungi - moulds than can make energy from gamma radiation emissions from nuclear waste in Chernobyl

    Nylon-digesting bacteria

    Tartigrades (Those can survive anything)


  2. If you need an answer, go to a highly-polluted site and see what is living there. For example, organically-polluted (hypereutrophic) water may contain carp or gars, midge larvae, snails, and planarians. You will find nothing that requires a high oxygen content in the water, such as brook trout, mayflies, or stoneflies. Curiously, although almost all stoneflies are sensitive to organic pollution, they are fairly resistant to acid pollution. A lot depends on which pollutant you are asking about.

  3. Even without pollution or other catastropic event, all lifeforms will evolve. In 50 million years we may have dinosaur type creatures again, while some other intellegent beings will be digging up our bones. Our sun will not support life on Earth in several billion years as it turns to a red giant.

  4. The answer depends on what kind of polution you are refering to .

  5. non we should try to stop it .and not even think about that

  6. roaches...I think.

  7. Cockroaches are one of the life forms that would be most likely to survive in a highly polluted world, because they can survive nuclear blasts that highly pollutes and mutates nearly everything in its blast radius.

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