The Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes That Sculpt Our Planet

Earth’s crust teems with subterranean life that we are only now beginning to understand.

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Side note: subterranean microbes play a large role in the plot of Stephen Baxterʼs science fiction novels Proxima (2013) and Ultima (2014). Iʼve yet to encounter such a story in which microbes are not only intelligent but are engaged in terraforming and communicating with an interstellar community of other similar planetary biomasses (albeït on geological time scales).