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Showing posts with label in the deep sea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label in the deep sea. Show all posts

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Life in the deep sea


The seabed of our planet is teeming with life forms unknown, according to an article in the journal Nature. Bacteria on the seabed could be older than life on the planet's surface.
Scientists suggest that between 60% and 70% of all bacteria live deep in the seabed of the Earth, away from sunlight. Some of the new bacteria identified are about 16 million years and survived some 400 meters deep.