This post is part of the Meet a Microbe series on the blog. Check it out to meet other microbes! Meet Deinococcus radiodurans, one of the world’s toughest bacterium. It’s an extremophile and one of the most radiation-resistant organisms known on Earth. This hardy little bacterium can survive over a thousand times the amount of radiation that…
Tag: thermophiles
Meet a Microbe: Nanopusillus acidilobi, an archaeon found in Yellowstone National Park
This post is part of the Meet a Microbe series on the blog. Check it out to meet other microbes! “Life has evolved to thrive in environments that are extreme only by our limited human standards: in the boiling battery acid of Yellowstone hot springs, in the cracks of permanent ice sheets, in the cooling waters of…


