“There are whole new lineages of microbial life down there,” Rappe says. “It’s like discovering plants for the first time, or fungi.”
A
….where nothing else can survive- places like glacial ice, or oil deposits, or the rainbow-colored sulfur pools of Yellowstone National Park.
B
One looks like a soup can with long arms sticking out of either end.
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…Rappe can tell that these creatures are completely different from what lives outside the crust.
D
What does Rappe compare the discovery of new lineages of microbial life to?
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