Scientists have identified a surprising new mechanism that could be affecting cloud formation and weather patterns in the arctic.
Bacteria in the ocean floor.
Although many of the microorganisms died when they were brought up to the surface after all the creatures are adapted for the high pressure and low temperature of the ocean floor the finding was.
The vast hot rocky environment within the earth s crust beneath the ocean floor.
Found in clay samples by folks aboard the joides resolution research ship the microbes survived almost 80 metres beneath the sea floor underneath an astonishing 5 7 kilometres 3 5 miles of.
A bacteria colony on the ocean floor illustrates the ubiquitous nature of microorganisms.
This combination of importance and hardiness makes them one of the most successful life forms as well.
When brought back to the lab and fed they started to multiply.
Now scientists have found a smorgasbord of microbes thriving in another unlikely realm.
When tiny plantlike ocean microbes.
Bacteria are also very important for the biological processes that take place on earth.
Bacteria are a very persistent form of life.
These microbes normally live in the intestinal tracts of humans and other warm blooded animals.
Bacteria from the ocean floor.
Microbes buried beneath the sea floor for more than 100 million years are still alive a new study reveals.
Sewage into the oceans releases huge numbers of bacteria and viruses into the water.