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Two kilometres down South Africa's deepest mines: life

Michael Allan McCrae | August 09, 2012 | 5:09 am Precious Metals Africa Gold 

As scientists continue to plumb the earth's most extreme environments looking for signs of life and wondering what it might say about the possibility for life elsewhere, Tullis Onstott told Discover that he found surprisingly robust and complex organisms in...

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