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Secret biosphere found 13 feet below world’s driest hot desert
To examine this, Dirk Wagner and colleagues collected deep subsurface soil samples from the Yungay Valley portion of the ...
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Hidden biosphere discovered beneath Atacama Desert, world’s driest desert!
Their findings reveal a previously unknown deep biosphere beneath hyper-arid desert soils, potentially extending downwards for an indefinite distance. Read more: UNESCO World Heritage Sites in ...
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Thousands of meters underground, more organisms live in the extreme environment than on land or in the ocean.
A great many living organisms live on Earth, and they can even be found in harsh environments such as the Antarctic and the deep seas. In fact, there is a biosphere called the 'subsurface ...
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Amount of deep life on Earth quantified
The DCO consortium reckons the deep biosphere constitutes about 2 to 2.3 billion cubic km. That is almost twice the volume of all the oceans. Bacteria and archaea (microbes with no membrane-bound ...