Life in the abyss

• Autores: Colin Barras
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2914, 2013, págs. 36-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Barras talks about the nematode worms swimming in the water-filled fissures of the Beatrix gold mine in 2011. The fact is, complex organisms just shouldn't be able to live so far beneath the Earth's surface. The nourishment and oxygen that animals need to survive are in short supply just tens of meters below ground, let alone 1.3 kilometers down. Travelling even deeper into South Africa's crust, they found more surprises. On a trek down into TauTona, the country's deepest gold mine, they came across another species of nematode worm at 3.6 ki1ometers below ground--making it the deepest land animal found to date.