Wherever you look, a microbe has likely been there before. Even in places where you don’t expect anything to grow, you’ll probably find some cool microbes that call this place their home.
And some of these microbes learned to adapt to these special – or extreme – conditions. They can’t even cope in normal environments.
Extreme conditions or extreme environments can be anything that we consider uninhabitable for us. This can be extremely high or low temperatures, extremely high or low pressure, radiation or toxicity.
Some of these microbes actually love the extremes. And these so-called extremophiles have special superpowers…
