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Thermophile bacteria

Description:

Orange bacteria mat in Yellowstone hot springs

Habitat:

Hot springs, Thermal vents

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5 Comments

Steven Sheppard
Steven Sheppard 10 years ago

I do as well. Very interesting organisms

Sckel
Sckel 10 years ago

I like the extremophiles.

Elton_Wizard
Elton_Wizard 11 years ago

Great image. Please consider adding it to my mission "Microscopic Life"

http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1016...

Steven Sheppard
Steven Sheppard 11 years ago

By all means, use it! Yellowstone is beautiful, I love it there!

FlanaganLife
FlanaganLife 11 years ago

Hi SFShep. I just created a mission called "Single-Celled Yellowstone" and this spotting was the best I could find as a representative picture. I hope that's OK. If not, let me know and I'll take it down. Nice shot, by the way! I can't wait to go to Yellowstone myself!

Steven Sheppard
Spotted by
Steven Sheppard

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States

Spotted on Aug 20, 2011
Submitted on Jan 20, 2012

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