Many worlds, subterranean edition
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 08:10
in Paleontology & Archaeology
One of the richest lines of research for those thinking about life beyond Earth has been the world of microscopic creatures that live in especially extreme and hostile environments here. The realm of extremophiles has exploded in roughly the period that exoplanet discoveries have exploded, and both serve to significantly change our view of what's possible in nature writ large.