Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
In the past few decades, the technology to sequence DNA directly from environmental samples has shown us that we had been missing the vast majority of the biodiversity on Earth. Much of this new life is in our deep subsurface, at crushing extremes of pressures, temperatures, pH, and toxic chemicals; places where life doesn’t seem possible, yet we’re finding that it exists. Join me as I take you on ...
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