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Underwater caves hint to origins of life on Earth and other worlds

Underwater caves hint to origins of life on Earth and other worlds

Underwater caves in Bahamas

Researchers studying marine bacteria in the Bahamas’ underwater caves, have made some remarkable discoveries which allowed to understand how these organisms adapt and thrive in rather precarious conditions. Their study might help scientists understand how marine life formed for the first time millions of years in the past, as well as hint how marine life could be found on distant planets or moons, like Jupiter’s Europa which is believed to have a hot, liquid ocean of water underneath its icy, tens of kilometers thick shell.

 

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