These microbes normally live in the intestinal tracts of humans and other warm blooded animals.
Bacteria in the ocean floor.
This combination of importance and hardiness makes them one of the most successful life forms as well.
Bacteria are a very persistent form of life.
Sewage into the oceans releases huge numbers of bacteria and viruses into the water.
Microbes buried beneath the sea floor for more than 100 million years are still alive a new study reveals.
Marine bacteria play a major role in the ocean s nutrient cycles.
When tiny plantlike ocean microbes.
Now scientists have found a smorgasbord of microbes thriving in another unlikely realm.
The slow motion bacteria buried deep in the ocean s floor to survive in one of the planet s most energy limited environments a hardy group of microbes appears to live at a glacial pace.
Bacteria are also very important for the biological processes that take place on earth.
Found in clay samples by folks aboard the joides resolution research ship the microbes survived almost 80 metres beneath the sea floor underneath an astonishing 5 7 kilometres 3 5 miles of.
When brought back to the lab and fed they started to multiply.
A bacteria colony on the ocean floor illustrates the ubiquitous nature of microorganisms.
Although many of the microorganisms died when they were brought up to the surface after all the creatures are adapted for the high pressure and low temperature of the ocean floor the finding was.
Bacteria from the ocean floor.