How to Use extremophile in a Sentence

extremophile

noun
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  • But nothing else matches the extremophiles, animals like the dinosaur shrimp and fairy shrimp, that can lay dormant for decades.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But one of the new nematodes from the genus Auanema did reproduce in the lab, which will provide researchers a new model extremophile to work with.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The base for all cells on Earth, even for the extremophiles living in nitrogen-heavy environments, is water.
    — Shannon Stirone, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2017
  • Hof isn’t the only living extremophile who harnesses this sort of focus.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 9 June 2017
  • On Earth, some methanogens are extremophiles—known to live deep in the ocean at hydrothermal vents, surviving on the intense heat and chemicals released.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Among the hundreds the team has logged are many extremophiles, which fill marginal niches on Earth but may be a dominant life form on an exoplanet.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2017
  • These extremophiles can also be found in highly salty or highly acidic environments.
    — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
  • On Earth, researchers have found all types of extremophile organisms with the ability to survive under intense heat and pressure, in the presence of acid, without water and even inside rocks.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 July 2017
  • On Earth, researchers have found all types of extremophile organisms with the ability to survive under intense heat and pressure, in the presence of acid, without water and even inside rocks.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 July 2017
  • And studies of extremophiles, microbes that thrive in inhospitable environments on Earth, suggest life can spring up in unlikely places.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Rather, an extremophile which has very strange capabilities.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2010
  • Some organisms—extremophiles—have adapted to live life in these severe environments.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Some organisms—extremophiles—have adapted to live life in these severe environments.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Dec. 2019
  • But in 2010, researchers confirmed the rusticles were created by a new extremophile bacteria, Halomonas titanicae, which is gobbling up the hull.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Orphan’s work with extremophiles — organisms that survive under extreme conditions like high pressure or a complete lack of sunlight — could shed light on the origins of life on Earth and the potential for life on other worlds, among other things.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Given tardigrades’ reputation as an extremophile, researchers are interested in plumbing their genome for the secrets to their resilience.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2016
  • For instance, Kaltenegger’s group has studied the spectra of 137 microorganisms, including extremophiles that thrive in Earth's most inhospitable environs.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 12 May 2015
  • The Patagonian ice dragon is what scientists call an extremophile, or an organism that can live in extreme environments.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 July 2022
  • One major factor that many extremophiles share is their ability to tolerate or even feed off of methane instead of oxygen or carbon dioxide, like methanotrophs, which are bacteria that eat methane and release oxygen as a byproduct.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The star ingredients in Nature in a Jar, which is billed specifically to address fatigued, sensitive and dry skin, are extremophile desert plants (aka succulents), including agave, jojoba, cactus, and prickly pear oil.
    — Rebecca Dancer, Allure, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Even some Earth-dwelling extremophiles—organisms that live in exceptionally harsh conditions—are poorly understood.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • Psammophiles themselves are examples of extremophiles, organisms that love extreme environments.
    — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • Water bears aren’t actually extremophiles, more extremo-tolerant.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Chemical interactions or geologic activity could provide energy for these life-forms, much as deep-sea volcanic vents like those German has discovered provide energy for extremophiles on Earth.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The overall family of extremophiles that live on or despite radiation includes both fungi and bacteria, and different species have different mechanisms for absorbing or tolerating radiation.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2020
  • But politicians did not always favor pursuit of such extraterrestrials, extremophile and/or intelligent and/or otherwise.
    — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 5 June 2019
  • Exhilarating detections of the first exoplanets in the 1990s, alongside a growing understanding of microbiology and extremophiles, had generated scientific buzz.
    — Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2023

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