Seafloor Microbes Are Living On The Products Of Irradiated Water – IFLScience

Lifeforms living in sediment at the bottom of the ocean get their energy from chemicals produced from irradiated seawater. Although this sounds awfully like Godzilla’s backstory, the radiation, in this case, has been there long before humans thought of testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific. The discovery may greatly widen the places we search for extraterrestrial life.
Most life on Earth gets its energy, directly or indirectly, from sunlight  either through photosynthesis, eating something that…

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