A New Yellowstone Park Discovery Points Back to The Origins of Life

[Judi Lynn]

These microbes basically live in acid.

DAVID NIELD 17 MAY 2018
Scientists have found a new lineage of microbes in the famously hot and acidic spring waters of Yellowstone National Park in the US, a discovery that promises to teach us more about the origins of life on our planet.

These single-cell organisms, from the archaea domain of life, seem to thrive in the thermal springs of Yellowstone where iron oxide is the main mineral.

Because the surface of Mars is made up of the same sort of materials, the researchers have named the lineage Marsarchaeota.

The conditions inside the springs of Yellowstone are thought to match the conditions on the early Earth, and that's why these Marsarchaeota microbes can be so helpful – they can show us how organisms sparked into life, and what role iron oxide may have played.

More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/yellowstone-park-archaea-discovery-points-to-the-origins-of-life

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1. All because 1 cent sales tax fails

Republicans refused to extend a 1 cent sales tax

http://www.wafb.com/story/37644553/special-session-2018-sales-tax-bill-fails-session-to-fix-fiscal-cliff-on-collision-course-with-failure

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2. Get it while it's hot

( get it?)....super volcano....

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3. Thanks for link. Fascinating discovery;will research more on topic.