An extremophile (from Latin extremus 'extreme' and Ancient Greek φιλία (philía) 'love') is an organism that is able to live (or in some cases thrive) in extreme environments, i.e., environments with conditions approaching or stretching the limits of what known life can adapt to, such as extreme temperature, pressure, radiation, salinity, or pH l...

extremophile, an organism that is tolerant to environmental extremes and that has evolved to grow optimally under one or more of these extreme conditions, hence the suffix phile, meaning “one who loves.” Extremophilic organisms are primarily prokaryotic (archaea and bacteria), with few eukaryotic examples.

2024年6月16日 · "Extremophiles" are organisms with the ability to thrive in extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents. Since they live in “extreme environments” (under high pressure and temperature), they can tell us under which range of conditions life is possible.

2017年5月26日 · Extremophiles are organisms that have evolved to survive in environments once thought to be entirely uninhabitable. These environments are inhospitable, reaching extreme conditions of heat, acidity, pressure, and cold that would be fatal to most other life forms.

2024年3月27日 · Extremophiles are organisms that have evolved to thrive in settings that were once believed to be completely inhospitable. These habitats are unfriendly, reaching extremes of severe heat, acidity, pressure, and cold that are lethal to most other forms of life.

Extremophiles have been found depths of 6.7 km inside the Earth’s crust, more than 10 km deep inside the ocean—at pressures of up to 110 MPa; from extreme acid (pH 0) to extreme basic conditions (pH 12.8); and from hydrothermal vents at 122 °C to frozen sea water, at −20 °C.

2023年10月19日 · Extremophiles are organisms that can live in exceptionally harsh environments. Find out about the different types of extremophiles, their adaptations, where they live, and which one is considered to be the most resilient creature on the planet.

2023年9月20日 · Extremophiles are organisms that live in "extreme" environments. Learn why extremophiles are remarkable, not only because of their habitats.

2023年10月19日 · Life manages to survive in places as hot as volcanoes and as cold as the poles of our planet. Organisms that thrive in these extreme environments are called extremophiles and their bodies have some unique adaptions to survive in such intense conditions. The Earth is vast.

Extremophiles are archaea, bacteria, and eukarya that thrive in the harshest of conditions on Earth. From the scalding hot springs in Yellowstone National Park to the subglacial lakes of Antarctica—these fascinating organisms flourish in habitats that are hostile or …