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"We found that the machinery required to create pyrrolysine is widespread in the Archaea, especially amongst these methanogenic archaea that consume methylated amines," said Shalvarjian, now a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

Mr Clothier explains: "The methanogenic bacteria are gobbling up all the solids and generating loads of lovely methane, which we then catch in the hoods over the top."

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025

A lot of them were methanogenic archaea — simple, single-celled microbes that produce methane after consuming hydrogen and carbon oozing out of rocks or in decaying organic matter.

From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2023

Did the methanogenic bacteria species also evolve as a strict anaerobe?

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Although there are more important biospheric sources of atmospheric methane than the methanogenic archaea in the rumens of cattle, my father’s throwaway phrase is a memorable bit of rhetoric.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2013