Image courtesy of MEDWAVES/IEO/ATLAS project.
Joel Kontinen
Almost two-thirds of seafloor life has not been discovered
yet.
Scientists suppose that microhabitats like deep coral
reefs and underwater volcanoes for species to adapt to. But that does not
mean that such environments gives life on the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
Life has to be created, as it cannot come by chance.
The current research team
focused on eukaryotic DNA from small organisms. "We're talking about
small animals less than a millimetre or 0.04 inches in size, and probably a lot
of protozoans, a lot of single-celled organisms," Andrew Gooday
said.
Source:
Pester, Patrick. 2022. The deep seafloor is filled with entire branches of life yet to be
discovered Live Science 3 February,
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