Microbe from depths takes life to hottest known limit
...he Pacific Ocean's Juan de Fuca Ridge, a lightless seascape where vents called "black smokers" rise up like three- and four-story chimneys and continuously spew a blackening brew laced with iron and sulfur compounds. While suffocating, crushing, scalding, toxic and downright abysmal by most living standards,......e same treatment but were exposed to a picture ofa seascape for four weeks before the aquariums were introduced. "We wanted to see if a simple change in the environment could account forthese changes in eating and behavior," Edwards says. "Though we're still sortingthrough the data, our preliminary fin...