Mariana Trench: Deepest ocean 'teems with microbes'

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The deepest place in the ocean is teeming with microscopic life, a study suggests.

An international team of scientists found that the very bottom of the Mariana Trench, which lies almost 11km (7 miles) down in the Pacific Ocean, had high levels of microbial activity.

The research is published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The underwater canyon was once thought to be too hostile an environment for life to exist.

full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21806406

[MFM008]

1. dont worry

we will wipe them out some day, like we are doing to the rest of the planet.

[valerief]

2. I think today the waters closer to the surface are too hostile an environment for life to exist,

considering all the radiation and other garbage tossed in them.