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Story: Life in hot springs

Filamentous micro-organisms

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Filamentous micro-organisms

These filamentous micro-organisms are growing with amorphous silica in Champagne Pool. The area shown is about 0.1 millimetre wide.

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GNS Science, Extremophile Photo Collection

by Kim Handley

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Bruce Mountain, Life in hot springs – Sinter, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/6472/filamentous-micro-organisms (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Bruce Mountain, published 2 March 2009.