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Deep in the depths of the Dead Sea, new life has been discovered. Thanks to newly found freshwater springs, certain forms of bacteria thrive, bacteria that, unlike other known freshwater and saltwater bacteria, can cope with rapidly changing salinity. It's the intriguing results of the first study of the Dead Sea in years, a rare undertaking partly because "accidentally swallowing Dead Sea salt water would cause the larynx to inflate, resulting in immediate choking and suffocation."

More complex animals like fish, amphibians, and marine snakes can't survive in the Dead Sea. But mats of bacteria, mainly in the domain Archea, survive in mats in the freshwater-spouting craters.

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