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Bizarre Creature in Idaho Raises Prospects for Life on Mars

By Red Wolf

18 January 2002

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They eat hydrogen, breathe carbon dioxide, and belch methane. And they form the root of an ecosystem unlike any previously known on Earth. Meet the methanogen, a tiny organism living in complete darkness 200 metres underneath the surface of Idaho

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