'Unlucky' creatures that enter rare Red Sea brine pools are immediately stunned to death - Livescience.com

Microbes in these dense, salty depressions thrive under extreme conditions.

Rare deep-sea brine pools discovered in the Red Sea may hold clues to environmental upheavals in the region that span millennia, and could even shed light on the origins of life on Earth, a new study… [+5478 chars]

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