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Deepest land-dwelling microbes found at bottom of 5km hole in China

Deepest land-dwelling microbes found at bottom of 5km hole in China

19 February 2021

Microbes at the bottom of the third deepest hole in the world may be surviving life at 137°C, which would extend life’s known thermal tolerances

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