Science
Hundreds of never-before-seen lifeforms live in this 6,000-foot-deep volcano’s acid jets – Livescience.com
These extreme microbes like it hot… really hot.
On Earth
, some organisms like it hot, some like it cold, and others feel at home only among the scalding acid jets of an undersea volcano.
That latter group an ancient and eclectic bunch known as extremophiles thrives in conditions that would kill your average Earthling. Members of the group tend to be microscopic in scale, and they include radiation-resistanttardigrades
, pressure-loving prokaryotes at the bottom of theMariana Trench
and the acid-slurping bacteria that make Yellowstone’sGrand…
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