New Habitat Inside Earth
Researchers have discovered a unique star shaped bacterium living 1.7 km below the Earth’s surface. This bacteria was discovered in South African platinum mine. There are many types of unknown species live in the deep subsurface of Earth, but large scale drilling projects needed to discover them. With the help of ultra-deep mines of South Africa, researchers are getting a glimpse into this unique habitat. Scientists from the University of Western Ontario and Princeton University have gained access to many previously undiscovered microbial communities in South African Northam Platinum mine.
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No Sex, Reproduction By Stealing DNA
According to Irina Arkhipova and Matthew Meselson of Harvard University in Cambridge, a tiny freshwater organisms have sex-free lifestyle and survive via stealing genes from other creatures. These organisms get their genes from bacteria, fungi and plants. These are bdelloid rotifers, a minuscule animals that appear to have sex free life style for more than 40 million years.
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