An extremophile (from Latin meaning "extreme" and Greek meaning "love")'s an organism that thrives in and even may require physically or geochemically extreme conditions that're detrimental to the majority of life on Earth. In contrast, organisms from moderate or neutral (often referring to pH) environments are termed neutrophiles. Most known extremophiles are microbes. The domain Archaea contains renowned examples, but extremophiles are present in numerous and diverse genetic lineages of both b… (More on Extremophiles)