They had found the world's first extremophiles – organisms that could live in water that had previously been assumed to be much too hot or acid or choked with sulphur to bear life.
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Extremophile
Synonyms for "extremophile"
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Lichens are 'extremophiles', organisms able to live, from our point of view, in other worlds.
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