Scientists Find Microbes Thriving in Earth’s Most Extreme Acidic Hellhole
In the most extreme corner of Earth—near the Dallol volcano in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression—scientists have discovered life thriving where no organism should survive: in water so acidic it rivals concentrated sulfuric acid, at temperatures near boiling, and under conditions once dismissed as “almost extraterrestrial.” The findings, published in 2019 by Spanish and French researchers from … Read more