Tiny Extremophiles Living in Rocks!

In freezing cold sand, a burning hot mine, or even inside solid rock – these extremophiles live anywhere that you wouldn’t want to live. What are they? How can they live in such extreme places?

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Sources:

http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/extreme/endoliths/index.html
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/8/2296.full.pdf
http://discovermagazine.com/1997/may/lookingforlifein1124

The terrestrial environment

http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/19643/1/lichenologist.pdf
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/99/1213/microbe.shtml
https://books.google.com/books?id=3UwEDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA132&ots=GcyMPlPtoe&dq=endoliths%20south%20african%20gold%20mine&pg=PA132#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081009/full/news.2008.1160.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-08-soil-beneath-ocean-harbor-bacteria.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1569264.stm
http://www.astrobio.net/topic/origins/extreme-life/glass-munchers-under-the-sea/
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=665
http://www.space.com/31772-fungi-survive-mars-conditions-space-station.html

Image Sources:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Endolithic_Disk_Lichen_and_Common_Goldspeck_Lichen_(2972547824).jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cryptoendolith.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desulforudis_audaxviator.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarcogyne_clavus.jpg