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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And that's just some of the things in a long list of things that have to go right to get complex life on a planet.

There's ground bacteria that adapted to live in human-made tar lakes, digesting tar instead of straw.