Subterranean life thrives deep in water system

[Pinoycaver]

Suppose you discovered the following in your drinking water: Long spaghetti-like strands of bacteria, flaky yellow mats that smell of rotten eggs, a stubby white fish named Satan, blind salamanders, snails.

What would you do?

Answer: Grow them in the lab and publish a paper. At least, that's what you do if you're Annette Summers Engel, geomicrobiologist who loves caves and slimy creatures.

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