Stunning pink lake is one of the world’s DEADLIEST – it hides a mysterious secret that turns animals to ‘stone’

IT is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the world's astir beauteous lakes - owed to its unsocial reddish pinkish colour.

But tourists indispensable not aquatics successful it, and the h2o is truthful harsh that it tin crook animals to 'stone'.

Lake Natron is chiefly located successful Tanzania, but the 56km-long assemblage of h2o besides stretches into Kenya.

The isolated water lays successful the shadiness of the progressive 7,650feet-tall Ol Doinyo Lengai - oregon 'Mountain of God' - volcano.

Its pinkish hue is simply a effect of a benignant of algae, called cyanobacteria, of which the water is brimming.

The algae is drawn to the lake's mineral-rich h2o - minerals which big their own, unique, risks to life.

Although the bacteria unsocial is deadly, releasing a chemic that damages the cells, tense system, and livers of astir animals that devour it.

Many of the birds and animals that portion from Lake Natron upwind up dead.

The h2o is pumped afloat of minerals - mostly sodium carbonate which was erstwhile utilized in Egyptian mummification and different salts - calved from blistery springs.

However, dissimilar the famous Great Salt Lake and the Dead Sea that are a deed with tourists, Lake Natron has highly alkaline water.

Its pH levels are astir 10.5 - arsenic precocious arsenic that of ammonia, which tin origin burns.

The creatures that succumb to the lake's deadly properties and perish successful the h2o are yet calcified.

They crook into stone-like mummies, with their carcasses preserved by the chemicals successful the water.

A harmless haven - for some

The country gets truthful hot, that the somesthesia of the h2o tin besides scope up to 60 degrees Celsius.

Just 400mm of rainfall falls connected Lake Natron each year, and overmuch of that is 'phantom rain' which evaporate earlier hitting the surface.

Only a fewer lifeforms tin past these utmost conditions, similar the bacteria haloarchaea, and the fish species Alcolapia latilabris.

Yet, Lake Natron is simply a cardinal breeding tract for the Lesser Flamingo, which person adapted to the harsh chemicals.

The toxic h2o has really go a harmless haven for the flamingo, arsenic it successfully keeps predators astatine bay.