Extremophile Organisms    Below are links to web sites that discuss various aspects of the Extremophile organisms. You do not have to read everything below; just find what works for you and use it.     Your assignment is to gathering information from these web pages, or their links, and in one page or so (typewritten) explain to someone who knows nothing about them, what extremophiles are, why they are important biologically and geologically, and what bearing they have on understanding the origins of life.    Scienific American article    XLife - General Index    XLife - Other Extreme Earth Life    Your Ancestors may have been Martial Extremophiles    The Search for Extremophiles on Earth and Beyond. What is extreme here may be just business-as-usual elsewhere.    Introduction to the Archaea    Triumph of the Archaea    Extremophiles The Ultramarathoners of the Microbe World    Life in Extreme Environments If life can exist somewhere - it will                    Return to Biology/Geology 350 - Invertebrate Paleontology