For example, giant kelp are found more than 200 meters below the polar ice sheets, according to "Algae," while the unicellular green algal species Dunaliella salina is found in very salty ...

151; -- A popular salt lake in Turkey recently turned a deep red color thanks to an enormous bloom of Dunaliella salinas algae. Saline lake Tuz Gola, the second-largest lake in Turkey, is slowly ...

The warm water’s high salt concentration makes what’s left of the lake a prime breeding ground for Dunaliella algae, which can turn the water blood-red. “In the marine environment ...

Researchers have identified unique proteins that allow a unicellular alga called Dunaliella salina to proliferate ... mechanisms of salt adaptation in algae and plants. Previous studies have ...

Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that marine algae can be just as capable ... focused their study on a marine species of alga, Dunaliella tertiolecta, which had been earlier ...

Here are some especially amazing examples of so-called extremophiles. Some organisms, such as Dunaliella algae discovered in 2010 in a cave in Chile's Atacama desert, can thrive on very little water.