The limits of life on Earth extended... in water
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 15:35
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new species of archaebacteria, Pyrococcus CH1, thriving within a temperature range of 80 to 105°C and able to divide itself up to a hydrostatic pressure of 120 Mpa (1000 times higher than the atmospheric pression), has just been discovered.