{"id":277205,"date":"2019-05-27T08:46:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEFm1GycX6GuGuW_H73igXJMqFggEKg4IACoGCAowzdp7ML-3CTCtyxU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:55:27","slug":"scientists-reported-ultra-small-microbes-in-ethiopias-dallol-volcano-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277205","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reported ultra-small microbes in Ethiopia\u2019s Dallol volcano springs"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May 2019 The Independent and related science coverage said researchers had found ultra-small microbes in the extreme hot springs of Dallol volcano in Ethiopia\u2019s Danakil Depression, one of the harshest places on Earth.<\/p>\n\"Scientists\n

The team reported tiny Nanohaloarchaea-like cells surviving heat near 90\u00b0C and extreme acidity around pH 0.25, conditions often compared with early Martian hydrothermal sites, and the study appeared in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n

Later papers debated contamination and mineral look-alikes, but the 2019 claim still pushed Dallol into global habitability debates and put Ethiopian geology on the Mars-analogue map.<\/p>\n

Kept as science archive, the Dallol microbe discovery is a dated research marker for Afar extreme environments.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> The Independent<\/a>, Scientific Reports (PMC)<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discovery in Ethiopian volcano shows how life could have thrived on Mars  The IndependentUltra-small microbes found for the first time in an Ethiopian volcano show how life could have once thrived on Mars. Researchers found a strain of bacter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/amhara-lalibela-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a73","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754926,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277205\/revisions\/754926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}