DailyDirt: Life, Life Everywhere from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Evidence of life hasn't been found outside of our planet (yet?),
but life seems to be getting into nearly every nook and cranny
of our dear Earth. Places that seem too cold or hot or dark have
been shown to harbor life forms that survive in unusual ways,
eating substances that aren't normally considered food. Here are
just a few examples of these extremophiles that suggest life
might exist on other worlds, even if the conditions don't seem
ideal. - Astronauts have actually discovered a new species of
life... while training in an underground cave. The astronauts
were taking a week-long ESA CAVES underground training course to
prepare for duties on the international space station and to
acclimate to working under extreme conditions, and they found a
new kind of crustacean. [url] - An ecosystem exists in the
deepest layer of the Earth's ocean crust, in the gabbroic layer,
living off hydrocarbons such as methane and benzene. This
discovery could mean t