Microbes

The invisible majority — bacteria, viruses, and microorganisms that run the planet.

All Mammals Birds Reptiles & Amphibians Insects Marine Life Plants & Fungi Microbes Evolution

Nature & Animals Microbes

A teaspoon of healthy soil holds more microbes than there are people on Earth

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Nature & Animals Microbes

Tardigrades can survive the open vacuum of outer space

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Nature & Animals Microbes

A Yellowstone hot-spring microbe made modern DNA testing possible

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Nature & Animals Microbes

One bacterium survives radiation that would kill a human thousands of times over

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Nature & Animals Microbes

A Dutch cloth merchant was the first to see microbes — through homemade lenses

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Nature & Animals Microbes

Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on Earth

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Nature & Animals Microbes

You carry roughly as many bacterial cells as human cells

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