Life in the Extreme: The Rock Bottom of Antarctica's Food Chain
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First Aired: 5/18/2009
56 minutes

Recent discoveries from seafloor and other rocks suggest that Earth's crust might be host to vast, unexplored ecosystems of microbes. Join Hubert Staudigel as he describes his recent expedition to Antarctica and how he is exploring inhospitable environments for microbes that may provide clues to the early history of life on Earth. (#16074)