It also does preserve many of these animals’ bodies, specifically due to the combination of chemicals that are deposited into the water via runoff from a nearby Great Rift Valley volcano, Ol Doinyo Lengai. As the New Scientist says, the lake can reach temperatures up to 60 ☌ and has an alkalinity between pH 9 and pH 10.5, making it pretty dang gross on the best of days - it can even burn the skin and eyes of animals who aren’t adapted to it. No one is disputing that Natron is a dangerous place for most species, of course. Case in point: after those gorgeous pictures of mummified Lake Natron birds made the rounds, now everybody thinks that the lake has supernatural gorgon-like powers.
Sometimes the media does this thing where it takes something incredibly fascinating and turns into a crappy game of telephone, and at the end everybody believes something completely fake.
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