For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...
Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...
Elon Musk had a bold idea. He wanted to take the dirt dug up by his The Boring Company while creating tunnels and turn it ...
Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...
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Strange Patterns in Marble Likely Made by Unknown MicrobeEvidently, microorganisms had perforated the rock. "We don't currently know whether this is ... It is assumed that ...
Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago.
It is assumed that microorganisms may have bored the tunnels to use nutrients present in the calcium carbonate, the main component of marble. The fine powder remained behind.
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