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In the profoundly remote Argentina desert, at over 12,000 feet high, and in a place where no roads go, scientists found an exotic world new to science.

Among white salt plains atop the Puna de Atacama plateau, there's a system of greenish lagoons harboring vast bacterial communities, called stromatolites, that create … Scientists discover unknown prehistoric world — on Earth