From vampire bacteria and glowing bacteria to magnetic bacteria and electric bacteria, microbes have developed some strange attributes over billions of years of evolution. That’s not even counting the entire class of microbes known as archaea that evolved to survive in some of Earth’s most hostile environments. This week, we’ll be discussing just a fraction of these strange microbes and the unique environments where they thrive. There are strange microbes in all three of the major domains of life: eukaryotes—the domain of humans, plants, and animals—bacteria, and archaea. The term archaea was first used in the late 1970s to describe…
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