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These microbial communities have learned to live at Earth’s most extreme reaches

Researchers are uncovering the survival strategies of microorganisms found in rocks buried deep beneath the ocean floor.
  1. Monique Brouillette
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At the bottom of the Indian Ocean, in one of the deepest layers of Earth’s crust ever explored, researchers are finding life. An analysis of rock samples from Atlantis Bank, part of a seafloor mountain where deep crustal rock is exposed close to the surface, has revealed microbes adapted to life within nutrient-poor, hairline fractures in the earth.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00697-y

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