Monday, December 30, 2013

A Diverse Life Lies Beneath Our Feet

The life below our earth's surface in an atmosphere with no light or air is being cataloged. The deepest life found to date are bacteria living 3.2 km below the surface in South African gold mines. In 2011, scientists did find worms that live underground and eat those bacteria. Scientists have now embarked on a census to catalogue the life buried beneath the earth's surface - to help them understand the origins of life on earth or reveal life that could ...

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