The Inquisitive Biologist looks back at 2025 and picks his five favourite books. Palaeontology, aerobiology, speleology, degrowth, and geomicrobiology top this year's list.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/

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New review: Focused and to the point, Intraterrestrials is a thought-provoking book on Earth's subsurface biosphere and how its existence challenges our understanding of biology. Your ticket to the underworld awaits.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/09/15/book-review-intraterrestrials-discovering-the-strangest-life-on-earth/

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Your ticket to the underworld awaits. Review coming soon to https://inquisitivebiologist.com

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New review: Deep Life is a detailed eyewitness account of our discovery of Earth's subsurface biosphere, though the focus on the "how" threatens to smother the fascinating subject matter.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/09/09/book-review-deep-life-the-hunt-for-the-hidden-biology-of-earth-mars-and-beyond/

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Progress report: Deep Life review will drop in a few days on https://inquisitivebiologist.com

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Unknown #microorganisms used marble and limestone as a habitat: Researchers of #MainzUniversity found unusual structures of unknown origin in rocks of desert areas in Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia / Publication in the #Geomicrobiology Journal 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/unknown-microorganisms-used-marble-and-limestone-as-a-habitat/

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Unbekannte #Mikroorganismen nutzten Marmor und Kalkstein als Lebensraum: Im Gestein von Wüstengebieten fallen außergewöhnliche Strukturen auf, deren Herkunft nicht geklärt ist / Publikation im #Geomicrobiology Journal 👉 https://presse.uni-mainz.de/unbekannte-mikroorganismen-nutzten-marmor-und-kalkstein-als-lebensraum/

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