Vida Submarina

 

CURIOUS CREATURES

The deep seafloor is filled with entire branches of life yet to be discovered (© MEDWAVES/IEO/ATLAS project) The deep-ocean floor is teeming with undiscovered life-forms that help to regulate Earth's climate, a new study finds. Researchers sequenced DNA from deep-sea sediments around the world and found that there is at least three times more life on the seafloor than there is higher up in the ocean. What's more, nearly two-thirds of that life has not been formally identified yet.  Full Story: Live Science (2/5)