Top 11: Extremophiles
Extremophiles can live just about anywhere. That’s great, however what the hell are extremophiles? That’s is what you are thinking, right? Well, the name, that literally means extreme loving, as proposed in 1974 by the scientist R.D. MacElroy to designate any organism able to support environmental conditions usually fatal to most eukaryotic cells, and the term extremophile is relatively anthropocentric. Usually, we tend to judge habitats based on what would be considered “extreme” for human …