Marine microorganisms: How to survive below the seafloor
Monday, July 20, 2020 - 09:40
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Foraminifera, an ancient and ecologically highly successful group of marine organisms, are found on and below the seafloor. Geobiologists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich report that several species not only survive, but thrive, in these oxygen-free sediments.