Lake Natron, located in northern Tanzania, is a striking and unusual body of water. Its red-hued surface and extreme chemical ...

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is ...

Lake Natron in Tanzania is one of the most serene lakes in Africa, but it's also the source of some of the most phantasmagorical photographs ever captured — images that look as though living ...

Lake Natron is a key mating ground for lesser endangered flamingo, but animals risk being frozen forever in its salt if they dare to go near its shores. Bacteria, which give the water its blood ...

Lake Natron is primarily located in Tanzania, but the 56km-long body of water also stretches into Kenya. The isolated lake lays in the shadow of the active 7,650feet-tall Ol Doinyo Lengai - or ...

Lesser flamingos feed on Lake Natron with Shompole Volcano in the background. Cinoby/iStock Lake Natron's red color comes from cyanobacteria that photosynthesize into bright red and orange hues as ...

Sometimes, truth is indeed more terrifying than fiction. In what could easily make for prime horror film fodder, a renowned photographer has captured stunning images of wildlife calcified by the ...

Perfectly preserved remains of birds, fish, and bats lay strewn around the shores of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania. "Discovering them washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron, I thought ...

Lake Natron has a chemical makeup that is so harsh, it is uninhabitable for most creatures. It is a "soda" lake, meaning it has high levels of dissolved sodium and carbonate. Due to this high ...