Life thrives in the deepest, darkest recesses of Earth’s crust - from methane seeps in the ocean floor to the highest reaches of Arctic permafrost - and it is unlike anything seen on the surface. Karen Lloyd shares what scientists are learning about these strange types of microbial life - and how research expeditions to some of the most extreme locales on the planet can tell us about the prospects for finding life on other planets - and the future of life on our own.
Karen G. Lloyd, Wrigley Professor of Earth Sciences, and Marine and Environmental Biology, University of Southern California
The Lunchtime Discovery Series is produced by the NC DEQ Office of Environmental Education and Public Affairs in partnership with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.