Scientists are studying extraterrestrial life, rig...  ...’s hydrocarbon seas is the largest asphalt lake on Earth: Trinidad’s Pitch Lake . Legend says the lake once transformed into a viscous maw to swallow a...  ...o pave city roads worldwide. Today, the 114...

Around boiling undersea hydrothermal vents? Inside...  ...here you can find (microbial) life: a hot asphalt lake . Pitch Lake is a poisonous, foul smelling, hell hole on the C...  ...the Caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago. The lake is filled with hot asphalt and bubbling wit...