Microbes Beneath Sea Floor Genetically Distinct

Monday, July 21, 2008 - 19:28 in Biology & Nature

Tiny microbes beneath the sea floor, distinct from life on the Earth's surface, may account for one-tenth of the Earth's living biomass, according to an interdisciplinary team of researchers, but many of these minute creatures are living on a geologic timescale.

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