...I’m talking abut water as briny as the Dead Sea... That’s way different than normal salt water in Earth’s Oceans....
Because we all know life can’t adapt to adverse conditions.
Who’s to say it can’t happen?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsiders_(Known_Space)
Listening to the audiobooks, they were creatures made out of liquid hydrogen, who feed off artificial or natural sunlight, from what I remember.