[smokingfrog]

There are plenty of bacteria and microbes on the ocean floor.

Scientists have found that rocks beneath the seafloor are teeming with microbial life.

[cripplecreek]

A couple years back I found a DNR officer collecting ooze in a swamp near here. He was collecting the ooze for some study on the oil eating bacteria that thrive there due to the oil that seeps out of the ground.