Organisms Found in Deepest Part of Ocean

AP via My Way News ^ | Feb 3, 2005 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID

[Lazamataz]

Because the water is so deep, the pressure where the find was made is 1,100 times more than normal atmospheric pressure at the surface.

Betchya it makes their ears pop.

[PatrickHenry]

"On the species level, all the species we found from the Challenger Deep are quite new," researcher Hiroshi Kitazato said vie e-mail. The outer shapes are similar to other known foraminifera, but details of their structure differ ...

We were talking, a day or so ago, about "new" phyla. This is the sort of thing I was thinking about. (Whether this is a good example or not, I haven't a clue.) It could be happening, or be on the verge of happening, almost all the time. It's difficult to know except after millions of years of hindsight.

[RightWhale]

the pressure where the find was made is 1,100 times more than normal atmospheric pressure at the surface.

Air pressure on Venus is 100 times earth's atmospheric pressure. The Goldilocks band is not as narrow as it at first appears.

[HOYA97]

You owe me a keyboard!!! ;-)

[Red Badger]

I don't but keyboards for perverts with dirty minds......;^)

[AntiGuv]

Speaking of Venus, it would be nice for NASA (or whoever) to send a mission to check the Venusian atmosphere for evidence of microbial life.

[UCANSEE2]

All life on earth is made up of intelligent single cell organisms, whose only desire is life.

It cares not where, nor how, it just knows that it will find a way to adapt and keep on living.

Scientists talk of mutation, where random changes are made, and those that work best are kept, because the creature lives.

While some of this is true, most 'mutation' is a willing change by the individual cells to adapt to new environments and find a way to survive.

There are creatures in the ocean that spend part of their life like a plant, with roots in the bottom, and stalks.

Later, they pull up root, so to speak, and change into a snakelike creature that swims through the ocean.

Rhinoceros beetles decide how to make their 'armor' look. It doesn't just grow, they participate in exactly how it (the chitin) grows.

A virus enters the body and makes up a combination of molecules(chemicals) shaped like various keys or geometric shapes, that will enter a normal cell, lock into place, and disable it. They do this without before running into the first normal cell. They know what and how to make the 'keys' before they get to the lock. Pretty smart, huh?



A human changes according to the way we think about ourselves and see ourselves. Our intelligence is made up of the collective intelligence of each individual cell.

The first creature on Earth, the oldest, and the most in number, is the same creature we are, and are made of.

Eukaryotes.

[gimme1ibertee]

Mine too...I read "orgasms"! LOL

[UCANSEE2]

P.S. Sorry, the PROKARYOTES were first. The Eukaryotes were second, having an internal engine (nucleus) which the PK's don't. A Eukaryote is a prokaryote with a booster engine.

They helped convert the atmosphere so further life could develop.

They are our God, but who created them?

[OSHA]

Woods Hole was not involved.

[AntiGuv]

The architects of the earth's atmosphere were primarily the cyanobacteria, which are prokaryotes.

[Coleus]

Via Drudge??

[Question_Assumptions]

They need to figure out if the 3 big Jovian moons that might have oceans do and whether there is any life in them. If there isn't, send a probe filled with every hearty species of life we can find in the oceans and drop them on in there.

[self_evident]

It is also exiting that most of the group belong to the oldest branch of foraminifera," he added, suggesting that these deep locations may form some sort of refuge for them.

Someone needs to go back to cladistics school. By definition, and by logic, the branches are of the same age.

[self_evident]

Well, if chlamydia and other bacteria can exist in Paris Hilton, I don't see why this is so surprising.

Ick. My thought was since geo-thermal vents have bacteria.. I'm not surprised by this.

Think you need to take a break from pop culture heh. :)

[ASA Vet]

At the same time as Earth was infused, those moons probably were.

[Red Badger]

But I bet Bedford was......

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping! Indeed, I wonder how they will date the emergence of it absent a geologic record?

[PatrickHenry]

... absent a geologic record?

They can dig a sea-floor core and look for older specimens. They might be fossilized. (I'm not sure if fossils of such animals are possible, and I'm not sure they can operate a dig that deep.)