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Swiss Alps Hide a Lethal Lake Layer: A Poisonous Sulphuric Layer Home Of Alien Bacteria

www.arktrek.shop Swiss Alps Hide a Lethal Lake Layer: A Poisonous Sulphuric Layer Home Of Alien Bacteria

Roughly 3 billion years ago, a single-celled photosynthetic bacterium began burping a new chemical that was poisonous to nearly every species on Earth. Over the following hundreds of millions of years, more microorganisms began producing this toxic gas, first saturating Earth's oceans and eventually...

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Nice article, but that headline is so misleading, I'm not inclined to upvote it.
tl;dr: Microorganisms used to live without oxygen. Some organisms started sprewing oxygen. Oxygen killed off most of these oxygen-free microorganisms. Life evolved and adapted. There's this lake in which the bottom layer is oxygen-less and oxygen-free microorganisms exist there. Scientists are doing a bunch of studies of this ecosystem.
I wouldn't call those organisms "alien." They were first in this planet!
- And lethal...
  
  I mean, sure. We'd deserve it for striking first.
  Edit: I misunderstood your comment. I see it now :)
  
  My bad. I meant the "lethal" in the title. Title makes it sound as if a deadly pandemic happens if that lake thaws.
  
  Oh hehe, apologies.
  And I know, right?!! So click-baity.

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