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Extreme Microbes Could Planet-Hop Using Asteroids: "We Were Interested In What The Limits Of Life Are"Artist impressionof an asteroid around Mars

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Extreme Microbes Could Planet-Hop Using Asteroids: "We Were Interested In What The Limits Of Life Are"Artist impressionof an asteroid around Mars
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Extreme Microbes Could Planet-Hop Using Asteroids: "We Were Interested In What The Limits Of Life Are"

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Ancient Bacteria From This Ice Cave Are Resistant To Modern Antibiotics – Here's Why That's "A Scientific Opportunity"A shot from the inside of Scarisoara Ice Cave in Romania, facing towards the cave mouth.

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Ancient Bacteria From This Ice Cave Are Resistant To Modern Antibiotics – Here's Why That's "A Scientific Opportunity"A shot from the inside of Scarisoara Ice Cave in Romania, facing towards the cave mouth.
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Ancient Bacteria From This Ice Cave Are Resistant To Modern Antibiotics – Here's Why That's "A Scientific Opportunity"

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Ayalon Cave Was Cut Off From Sunlight And Rainwater For Millions Of Years. So How Did Life Survive?Ayalon Cave

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Ayalon Cave Was Cut Off From Sunlight And Rainwater For Millions Of Years. So How Did Life Survive?Ayalon Cave
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Ayalon Cave Was Cut Off From Sunlight And Rainwater For Millions Of Years. So How Did Life Survive?

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Icefish Live In Sub-Zero Antarctic Waters, So Why Don’t They Freeze?icefish with clear tissues demonstrating its lacking hemoglobin in its blood

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Icefish Live In Sub-Zero Antarctic Waters, So Why Don’t They Freeze?icefish with clear tissues demonstrating its lacking hemoglobin in its blood
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Icefish Live In Sub-Zero Antarctic Waters, So Why Don’t They Freeze?

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This Very Strange Fish Has Clear Blood And Is The Only Known Vertebrate To Lack Hemoglobinicefish in the weddell sea

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This Very Strange Fish Has Clear Blood And Is The Only Known Vertebrate To Lack Hemoglobinicefish in the weddell sea
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This Very Strange Fish Has Clear Blood And Is The Only Known Vertebrate To Lack Hemoglobin

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“The Wood Frog Comes Back To Life”: Meet The Real-Life Frogsicle That Can Survive Freezinga wood frog on a tree

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“The Wood Frog Comes Back To Life”: Meet The Real-Life Frogsicle That Can Survive Freezinga wood frog on a tree
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“The Wood Frog Comes Back To Life”: Meet The Real-Life Frogsicle That Can Survive Freezing

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Rare Red Sea Brine Pools Are One Of The Most Extreme Environments On Earthunderwater photograph of a brine pool found in the Gulf of Aqaba

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Rare Red Sea Brine Pools Are One Of The Most Extreme Environments On Earthunderwater photograph of a brine pool found in the Gulf of Aqaba
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Rare Red Sea Brine Pools Are One Of The Most Extreme Environments On Earth

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Strange Lifeforms Dwell In Earth's Crust And Some May Live For Millions Of YearsA cliff showing the geological cut of the earths crust.

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Strange Lifeforms Dwell In Earth's Crust And Some May Live For Millions Of YearsA cliff showing the geological cut of the earths crust.
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Strange Lifeforms Dwell In Earth's Crust And Some May Live For Millions Of Years

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Those Strange Green Blobs On Your Grass Might Be “Troll’s Butter”Photograph of a colony of Nostoc commune, a cyanobacteria species that when hydrated, becomes dark green and slimy

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Those Strange Green Blobs On Your Grass Might Be “Troll’s Butter”Photograph of a colony of Nostoc commune, a cyanobacteria species that when hydrated, becomes dark green and slimy
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Those Strange Green Blobs On Your Grass Might Be “Troll’s Butter”

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Antarctica's Lake Enigma Is Hiding A Weird And Unique EcosystemA scattering of the Quartermain Mountains in Victoria Land, the same region of east Antarctica where Lake Enigma is found.

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Antarctica's Lake Enigma Is Hiding A Weird And Unique EcosystemA scattering of the Quartermain Mountains in Victoria Land, the same region of east Antarctica where Lake Enigma is found.
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Antarctica's Lake Enigma Is Hiding A Weird And Unique Ecosystem

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World-First Discovery Reveals How The Third Domain Of Life Makes Energy In Earth’s Bleakest CornersGeysers in Norris Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. The landscape is rocky with a number of pools that appear bright turquoise; there are clouds of steam rising, and in the distance green plants cover the terrain.

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World-First Discovery Reveals How The Third Domain Of Life Makes Energy In Earth’s Bleakest CornersGeysers in Norris Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. The landscape is rocky with a number of pools that appear bright turquoise; there are clouds of steam rising, and in the distance green plants cover the terrain.
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World-First Discovery Reveals How The Third Domain Of Life Makes Energy In Earth’s Bleakest Corners

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Why Is The Dead Sea So Salty?the dead sea with incredibly high salt levels due to evaporation

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Why Is The Dead Sea So Salty?the dead sea with incredibly high salt levels due to evaporation
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Why Is The Dead Sea So Salty?

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Creatures Of The Sand: What Animals Live In The Desert?camel sitting in the desert at night with Milky Way visible in the sky

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Creatures Of The Sand: What Animals Live In The Desert?camel sitting in the desert at night with Milky Way visible in the sky
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Creatures Of The Sand: What Animals Live In The Desert?

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Steamy Stuff At Fly Ranch GeyserA geyser, colorful rocky protrusion from the ground.

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Steamy Stuff At Fly Ranch GeyserA geyser, colorful rocky protrusion from the ground.
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Steamy Stuff At Fly Ranch Geyser

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Three-Eyed "Dinosaur Shrimp" Are Waking Up At Burning Mantriops burning man

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Three-Eyed "Dinosaur Shrimp" Are Waking Up At Burning Mantriops burning man
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