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Naica Mexico Summary

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In Naica, Mexico, a cave system is found to hold some secrets to the Earth. What is described to look like something out of fairy tales has NASA scientists excited.

These biologists are particularly interested in the ancient microbes that are laying dormant in Naica, Mexico. For these life forms to survive, it appears that they were able to exist by living off on minerals such as manganese and iron.

Penelope Boston, the current head of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute calls it super life, as reported by ABC News. Boston presented the discovery on Friday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference. The study is still on-going but if their theory of feeding off of these minerals are confirmed then this just proves

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