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DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Bold Traveler Illustration

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Desulforudis audaxviator is an organism that lives independently in total darkness and at high temperature by reducing sulfate and fixing carbon and nitrogen from its environment, deep within the Earth. It constitutes the first known single-species ecosystem.

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Illustration © 2008 Thanya Suwansawad

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