Bottom Ocean Floor Life

The idea that ancient life forms had endured at the bottom of the sea was too tempting to ignore.

Bottom ocean floor life.

These very much alive microbes are older than some dinosaurs. The bottom of the ocean is filled with rare and unique species seen nowhere else. Despite covering 71 of the surface of our planet and being the likely birthplace of all life we know surprisingly little about our oceans. Each features an entertainment system complete with a plasma satellite tv with a movie channel room service wi fi a mini bar in room radio air conditioning and a rain shower bathroom.

View image of the challenger off the kerguelen islands credit. Scientists have brought back to life microbes found in 100 million year old sediment from deep beneath the ocean floor. Http bit ly natgeosubscribe sea of hope. North wind picture archives alamy.

Many of these newly discovered species live deep on the ocean floor in unique habitats that depend on plate movement underwater volcanoes and cold water seeps. The deep sea is mostly devoid of life as the aphotic without light zone of the ocean begins at a depth of 0 9 km 15 000 feet and continues all the way to the bottom. Our maps of the floor of the ocean are far less detailed than those of the surface of the moon. Stop what you re doing and watch this.

Below the fold are three high definition streams of the ocean floor currently broadcasting live via noaa s new 6 000 meter remotely operated vehicle rov. Some species especially worms cement the sediments together making very hard tubes. Although the continental shelves are technically the sea floor sometimes when the word is used it refers specifically to the deep sea. Tubes created in the bottom of the ocean can be used by animals like anemones and worms to draw water with dissolved oxygen below the surface.

The creatures at the bottom of the ocean 01 06. The experiment sheds new. Marine life can change the bottom of the ocean. Scientists recently retrieved microbes from sediment found at the bottom of the south pacific ocean that are over 100 million years old.

Sylvia earle and crew dive to the bottom of the ocean and capture a new discovery on camera.