Works by Kari Eloranta
Snowy forest in the dwindling winter light of the North?
Well, no.
Rather fumaroles at the (now largely dried) bottom of Lac Abbe, Djibouti.
Perhaps the place where it all began, where the Tree of Life once sprang up.
These benthic hell holes, volcanic outlets with lots of hydrogen sulphide and little
oxygen hosted Asgard archaea, the experts' prime candidates for our first ancestors.