Scientists searching for exotic home for life, far beneath the earth's surface.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: October 2, 1997| Author: Boyd, Robert S. | Copyright information

WASHINGTON _ For thousands of years, people have recognized three zones where living things reside on Earth _ on land, in the air and under water. In these three realms, trees, birds, fish and humans thrive in the life-giving energy of the sun. Scientists call it the biosphere.

But now another exotic home for life has apparently been detected _ a vast layer of warm, loose rocks half a mile or more below the ocean floor where hordes of microscopic organisms feed on sul...

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