Tales from the Underground: on extremophiles, “microorganisms that not just tolerate, but

demand, conditions that would seem to make life impossible… (and) may have cousins on Mars… David Wolfe, a Cornell

professor, considers the extremophiles he describes in the following passage (excerpted from his book) as just a small

part of the vast flora and fauna to be found underground.” BioMedNet [requires free registration] via Red Rock Eaters