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    Are there stone-eating bacteria?

    Question #46121. Asked by Benny Hill. (Apr 06 04 10:04 AM)


    mountside

    		Lithotrophs which translates to "rock-eating".

    Apr 06 04, 10:34 AM
    TheAlphaWolf

    		yes
    http://www.resa.net/nasa/otherextreme.htm
    Rock-Eating Microbes
    Scientists at Oregon State University have discovered evidence of rock-eating microbes living nearly a mile beneath the ocean floor in conditions which suggest similar life could exist on Mars or other planets.

    Microbial fossils were found in abundant quantities in miles of core samples taken during various research projects by the Ocean Drilling Program in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans...

    Where the basalt was glassy, having quickly been cooled by seawater, the scientists found a series of tracks and trails. "Whenever we looked at those tracks for DNA, we found it" ...


    Apr 06 04, 10:37 AM

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