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April 16, 2004
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Taylor Valley, Antarctica
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1997
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Maria Stenzel
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"Taylor Glacier, its snout reddened by iron, drains into Lake Bonney. Snow and ice collect at higher elevations, but the valleys are as dry as the Gobi desert; temperatures average minus 4 degrees F [-20 degrees C]. The lion of this land, the creature at the top of the food chain, is a bacteria-eating nematode, a microscopic worm that can survive years of being freeze-dried."
—From "Timeless Valleys of the Antarctic Desert," October 1998, National Geographic magazine
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