A discovery in the deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia has opened new doors in the world of geomicrobiology.

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on ...

Scientists recently identified peculiar micro-burrows in marble and limestone formations in Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago.

Mysterious tunnels in desert rocks may be the work of unknown microbes, hinting at a hidden world inside marble and limestone ...

In the scorching deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, scientists have discovered intriguing structures in marble and ...

without which biological growth would be impossible,” the team said in a study recently published in the Geomicrobiology Journal. “The investigated areas are currently arid, but experience ...

Researchers from Mainz University have uncovered evidence of previously unknown microorganisms in marble and limestone ...

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