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Danakil Depression – Organisms found surviving in Earth’s most barren hellscape

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Danakil Depression is a scorching hot, bone-dry, lava-spewing hellhole with lakes of acid. Somehow, there’s still life.

It’s nicknamed the "Gateway to Hell," and that’s not an exaggeration. Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression lies at the triple junction of three tectonic plates, a place where the land is literally being ripped […]

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