Unusual microbial ropes grow slowly in cave lake

Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 08:07 in Earth & Climate

Deep inside the Frasassi cave system in Italy and more than 1,600 feet below the Earth's surface, divers found filamentous ropes of microbes growing in the cold water, according to a team of Penn State researchers...

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