Strange life-forms have been found in the Kidd Mine in Canada, and scientists say there could be a hidden world of 'deep life' waiting to be discovered. - NBCNewsMACH
, meaning that there are almost certainly more extreme ecosystems out there than the one in the Kidd Mine.The pace of existence in the deep also seems radically different from that on the surface. In ancient environments like the trapped waters at the bottom of the Kidd Mine, food and energy are scarce. To compensate, cellular metabolism slows almost to a standstill.
Cara Magnabosco and colleagues collect ancient water samples 1.3 km deep within the Beatrix Gold Mine, South Africa to investigate the diversity and abundance of deep microbes. Image courtesy of Gaetan Borgonie and Barbara Sherwood Lollar.
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