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Published online 17 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020114-7
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Life, as it was in the beginning?
A new type of Earth ecosystem could be found on other planets.
Scientists have found a community of microbes unlike anything else on Earth. Conditions in this ecosystem could mimic those on Earth when life began, and might exist elsewhere in today's Solar System.
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