Maybe FBI Agent Mulder should have spent more time in microbiology class rather than looking to skies to search for alien life. Extremophile organisms are those that thrive in the coldest, hottest, deepest, saltiest, most acidic parts of the habitable earth. They have been studied by scientists...

Maybe FBI Agent Mulder should have spent more time in microbiology class rather than looking to skies to search for alien life. Extremophile organisms are those that thrive in the coldest, hottest, deepest, saltiest, most acidic parts of the habitable earth. They have been studied by scientists...

This week we dive into an introduction of fossils - what exactly are they? Is a turd considered a fossil? How have they helped define periods in our vast geological time scale? Fossils can invoke feverish pursuit of the perfect specimen and give windows to the lives past that otherwise would be...