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Know about the extremophiles, organisms with the power to survive in extreme environments imaginable

Know about the extremophiles, organisms with the power to survive in extreme environments imaginable

Learn about hard-to-kill extremophilic organisms.

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Extremophile bacteria (living inside tube worms) that live on rocks near “black smoker”...

IFE, URI-IAO, UW, Lost City Science Party; NOAA/OAR/OER; The Lost City 2005 Expedition

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extremophile; archaea

Yellow mats of extremophile archaea in a geothermal pool in Yellowstone National...

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