Hacker News with Generative AI: Lichens

Lichens can survive almost anything, and some might survive Mars (arstechnica.com)
Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and a sparse atmosphere, isn’t exactly propitious for life. Despite the red planet’s brutality, lichens that inhabit some of the harshest environments on Earth could possibly survive there.
Lichens in cemetaries and a scientist who studies them (atlasobscura.com)