The discovery, in an undersea hot vent, of an organism that does not fit into any previously defined category of life marks the creation of yet another group within the mysterious Archaea.
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Boucher, Y., Doolittle, W. Something new under the sea. Nature 417, 27–28 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417027a
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