Unboilable microbe signifies possible hot origins of life

Guardian Story A microorganism that lives near super-heated cracks on the ocean floor can survive at temperatures of up to 121 Degrees C = 266 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the hottest bug on earth. Basically this bug, revealed in Science on Friday can live in REALLY hot conditions DEEP under the ocean floor where this super heated water - heated by the earth's core heat - rises up and provides energy for the bug to live. Previously they've found massive worm like creatures around these hot spots, but this is the most heat tolerant microrganism scientists have, as yet, found.
"It has been the dogma in microbiology for 120 years that that temperature would kill any living organism," said Derek R. Lovley, a University of Massachusetts microbiologist who was the senior author of the study.
It's not actually clear (to me) how long enduring this bug is, as the Guardian's (above) article says it can withstand 121 for ten hours, whilst the Environmental News Network says just one hour. I think I'll go for the one hour - a) 10 hours seems unlikely, and b) the ENN story has LOADS more detail - details of where the strain is from - the Juan de Fuca Ridge. I 've even heard of that before!! I'm so pleased. Supposedly these bacteria or whatever live really well because of the sulfur and iron that emenates from the rocks nearby:
"Lovley said Strain 121 uses iron oxide in the vent streams to metabolize organic molecules. In effect, the microbe uses iron in the same way that surface-dwelling organisms use oxygen."
How confusing. They quote a guy from washington university, whislt the ridge is off Washington State - nowhere NEAR St. Louis. Everyone wave to St. Louis>!!!