Challenge: Design a Martian

Mrs. Wyllie/Mr. Penfield's Science class - North Country Union Junior High School, Derby, Vermont
Grant, Shelly, Taylor, Christe, Paul & Korri

Extremo-bug
Our creature, known as Extremobug, is a small organism that is classified as an Extremophile. An Extremophile is an organism that exists in conditions most living things cannot tolerate. The Extremobug is a warm-blooded organism. It uses its hair to move like a worm and dig through the polar ice caps. Its whole body including its head heats up to about 80 - 90 degrees C to melt the ice while burrowing. As the ice melts the circular pores suck up the water and it uses the nutrients in the water to survive. It uses the antennas on its head to feel and use as sensors. It uses its gills to inhale carbon dioxide and the carbon dioxide is then transferred in to its organelles. The tube at its rear is its waste tube. Its defense mechanism is to curl up and to heat up to 90 degrees C so it can burn it predators. The Extremobug grows up to 1 inch a month. It has a life span of 12 - 18 months. The Extremobug is made of cells common to the ones in humans. A week before the Extremobug dies its pores transform into eggs, which hatch into baby Extremobugs when it dies. When the baby Extremobugs hatch the are born with the instincts to dig for water and how to defend themselves from predators. During the night the Extremophile burrows up and into the dirt and sleeps. While it is sleeping it keeps its body warm so it does not freeze. In the daytime and you know it burrows through the Polar Ice Caps and sucks up water and nutrients by using its pores. During the night the Extremophiles organelles take the water and purifies it from the nutrients. It uses the water as energy and the nutrients as food. An Extremophile is water based like a human. It is also an advanced creature.

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