Deep Sea Extremophiles (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 15:50 (4756 days ago)

On the floor of the Mariana Trench, huge single-celled organisms:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111024165037.htm

Deep Sea Extremophiles

by David Turell @, Friday, November 11, 2011, 15:46 (4739 days ago) @ David Turell

On the floor of the Mariana Trench, huge single-celled organisms:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111024165037.htm

Video: Dead Sea also alive:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=researchers-find-life-in-2011-11-09

Deep Sea Extremophiles

by David Turell @, Thursday, December 18, 2014, 01:55 (3607 days ago) @ David Turell

Well below the ocean floor, in a coal bed, living organisms!-http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30489814-"The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) found microbes living 2,400m beneath the seabed off Japan.-"The tiny, single-celled organisms survive in this harsh environment on a low-calorie diet of hydrocarbon compounds and have a very slow metabolism."-"The thought was that while there are some microbes that can eat compounds in coal directly, there may be smaller organic compounds - methane and other types of hydrocarbons - sourced from the coal that the microbes could eat as well.-"The experiments revealed that the microbes were indeed dining on these methyl compounds.-"The tests also showed that the organisms lived life in the slow lane, with an extremely sluggish metabolism."

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