Ron gets a no-prize that works well under pressure for bringing us news of a most curious strain of deep-sea bacteria:

By sequencing the genome of the deep-sea bacteria Photobacterium profundum, strain SS9, a team of Italian and U.S. researchers have opened a window into how it survives in what is arguably the most bizarre, least understood and yet most common habitat on the planet — the near-freezing ocean bottoms two-and-a-half miles under the waves where the water pressure is 15,000-pounds-per-square-inch.

The adaptations it exhibits are striking to say the least.