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http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/ … osynthesis without sunshine
*Discovered off one of Mexico's coastal lines. Is the first such known organism and is classed as an extremophile. Lives more than a mile undersea and relies on the capture of dim radiation via hydrothermal vents -- and sulfur -- to produce energy.
Implications for life elsewhere contemplated...which of course could include Mars.
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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
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http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/ … ife.html]A community of clams...
*Found 1/2 mile down, on the ocean floor...in Antarctica. They and bacteria are surviving near-freezing temps and sunless conditions. Discovery made after 2002 ice shelf collapse.
Ties in with the article above, of course...and implications for extremophiles, possible life elsewhere in the Solar System including Mars of course.
Since light could not penetrate the ice or water, these organisms do not use photosynthesis to make energy. Instead, these extreme creatures get their energy from methane
Wow. Clams...
bacteria, no surprise. But clams?? LOL!
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an old thread maybe it could be suitable for the extremophile topic
Life on Earth could have started in hydrothermal vents deep under the sea
https://www.postguam.com/news/national/ … 59833.html
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