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- 1Amoeba Found Thriving at 63°C Sets Heat Record for Complex Life●Scientists found an amoeba thriving at 63°C in a Lassen Volcanic hot spring, a new heat record for complex life. https:/
Scientists report discovering an amoeba living in a hot spring in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, at a temperature of 63°C, the highest ever recorded for a complex organism. The finding, highlighted by ScienceAlert and circulating among science enthusiasts, pushes the known temperature limits of eukaryotic life and offers clues about how single-celled complex life can adapt to extreme volcanic environments.
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A new finding reports that overlapping genes—genes whose sequences physically overlap on the genome—are subject to different evolutionary pressures depending on the organism. In bacteria, overlapping genes appear to evolve under one set of constraints, while in eukaryotes, or complex life, they follow another. The results suggest that genome architecture shapes how evolution acts on shared genetic material, challenging the assumption that overlapping genes obey universal rules across all living things.