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Is it worth mentioning Tom Gold's The Deep Hot Biosphere here? (and his theory that hydrocarbon deposits are produced by ongoing endolithic action, and aren't fossil fuels at all)? I don't know how much of a crank the mainstream community thinks Gold is. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 14:47, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Are all endoliths really extremophiles. The name merely indicates that they live inside rocks. References I have found consider algae living within coral to be endoliths. I would like to remove the reference to extremophiles from this page (or at least qualify it: 'many endoliths are extremophiles'). I'm also putting as similar query on the extremophile page to remove the endolith link. Jmeppley 01:35, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
these are generally-accepted by mainstream scientists, right? should have some references. i know nothing about how a creature could survive off iron alone... - Omegatron 22:02, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
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How do they move about inside a rock? Do they live in cavities inside rocks or physically inside solid rock matter?-- Sonjaaa 04:28, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
There should not be a redirection from "pulp stone" to this article. Denticles as in pulp stones are a dental/medical topic and have nothing to do with endoliths. 91.18.170.54 ( talk) 21:34, 17 November 2010 (UTC) see the german version "Dentikel". 91.57.255.41 ( talk) 15:30, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, none of the references in this article refer to "pulp stones". It appears to me from google searches that "pulp stone" is overwhelmingly used as a dental term, as in Pulp stone (tooth). Because of this, I am planning to move that article to Pulp stone, which will no longer redirect here. I am wondering if I should leave a hatnote linking here on Pulp stone - can anyone advise? Are there any sources referring to the endoliths discussed here as "pulp stones"? (Also, are there any objections to moving Pulp stone (tooth) to Pulp stone?) A2soup ( talk) 09:03, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
My Google search found the toothy meaning to be the clear primary topic. The other meaning I found was something used in groundwood mills. Wbm1058 ( talk) 13:35, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Found myself here after watching a video from PBS Spacetime in which he mentioned that you can find Endoliths in all the parts of the tree of life. The article seems to imply the same (though it does not outright state it). Is there anyway that some examples from each part of the tree of life could be added? 73.201.125.85 ( talk) 07:38, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
"Endolith" seems to literally translate just to "interior rock." It does not even seem to suggest "something else" in the interior of a rock, but just a rock that is the interior of something. Compare to "endoskeleton," which does not refer to organisms living inside skeletons, but "internal skeleton." Whereas "endolithic" would mean something "of the interior of a rock." Still not necessarily living organisms, theoretically, it could be "endolithic water," or whatever. The context of biology would suggest implicitly an endolithic biota, but I wouldn't be surprised if within geology the same word was used referring to some sort of layering of rocks (analog to "endoplasm"), or even actual rocks found inside something like a cave. Also, aeroliths are not microbes living in aerial stones, but meteorites. Lith = stone/rock; lithic = something of such rock -- 45.234.133.202 ( talk) 13:02, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Eggs get infected all of the time. Unless one can show a pandemic of fungal infection at the time of the extinction, I shall rephrase the section to merely state that we found endolithic organisms in dinosaur eggs and remove the claim to the infection causing mass extinction.
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Is it worth mentioning Tom Gold's The Deep Hot Biosphere here? (and his theory that hydrocarbon deposits are produced by ongoing endolithic action, and aren't fossil fuels at all)? I don't know how much of a crank the mainstream community thinks Gold is. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 14:47, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Are all endoliths really extremophiles. The name merely indicates that they live inside rocks. References I have found consider algae living within coral to be endoliths. I would like to remove the reference to extremophiles from this page (or at least qualify it: 'many endoliths are extremophiles'). I'm also putting as similar query on the extremophile page to remove the endolith link. Jmeppley 01:35, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
these are generally-accepted by mainstream scientists, right? should have some references. i know nothing about how a creature could survive off iron alone... - Omegatron 22:02, May 24, 2005 (UTC)
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How do they move about inside a rock? Do they live in cavities inside rocks or physically inside solid rock matter?-- Sonjaaa 04:28, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
There should not be a redirection from "pulp stone" to this article. Denticles as in pulp stones are a dental/medical topic and have nothing to do with endoliths. 91.18.170.54 ( talk) 21:34, 17 November 2010 (UTC) see the german version "Dentikel". 91.57.255.41 ( talk) 15:30, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, none of the references in this article refer to "pulp stones". It appears to me from google searches that "pulp stone" is overwhelmingly used as a dental term, as in Pulp stone (tooth). Because of this, I am planning to move that article to Pulp stone, which will no longer redirect here. I am wondering if I should leave a hatnote linking here on Pulp stone - can anyone advise? Are there any sources referring to the endoliths discussed here as "pulp stones"? (Also, are there any objections to moving Pulp stone (tooth) to Pulp stone?) A2soup ( talk) 09:03, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
My Google search found the toothy meaning to be the clear primary topic. The other meaning I found was something used in groundwood mills. Wbm1058 ( talk) 13:35, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
Found myself here after watching a video from PBS Spacetime in which he mentioned that you can find Endoliths in all the parts of the tree of life. The article seems to imply the same (though it does not outright state it). Is there anyway that some examples from each part of the tree of life could be added? 73.201.125.85 ( talk) 07:38, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
"Endolith" seems to literally translate just to "interior rock." It does not even seem to suggest "something else" in the interior of a rock, but just a rock that is the interior of something. Compare to "endoskeleton," which does not refer to organisms living inside skeletons, but "internal skeleton." Whereas "endolithic" would mean something "of the interior of a rock." Still not necessarily living organisms, theoretically, it could be "endolithic water," or whatever. The context of biology would suggest implicitly an endolithic biota, but I wouldn't be surprised if within geology the same word was used referring to some sort of layering of rocks (analog to "endoplasm"), or even actual rocks found inside something like a cave. Also, aeroliths are not microbes living in aerial stones, but meteorites. Lith = stone/rock; lithic = something of such rock -- 45.234.133.202 ( talk) 13:02, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Eggs get infected all of the time. Unless one can show a pandemic of fungal infection at the time of the extinction, I shall rephrase the section to merely state that we found endolithic organisms in dinosaur eggs and remove the claim to the infection causing mass extinction.