Iron Snail: Mother Nature's Steampunk...
The scaly-foot gastropod (Crysomallon squamiferum)... ...t live in the foot of black smokers at the Kairei hydrothermal vent field, with temperatures reaching 725 °F, it... ...miles below the central Indian Ocean, deep within hydrothermal vent fields. Fluids in these vents...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/iron-snail-mother-natures-steampunk/
