Thursday, December 8, 2011

New Life-Forms in the Dead Sea

               New giant creaters, which spew fresh water and brim with bacteria have been found at different barren bottom of the Dead Sea where there is no creature. In 2010, a team that dive for the springs found several creaters that were covered with thin skin and thick tangles of new bacterial species. These tiny craters lie near thin plumes, a current going up in a mantle, of fresh water that shoot from undersea springs, which has long been suspected based on peculiar waves on the Dead Sea's surface. The research of The Dead Sea is not easy, because of its salty water and the Dead Sea much saltier than ocean water, because the water has no outlet. As fresh water evaporates, salty minerals dissolved in the water get left behind. This process causes the situation of The Dead Sea. Large organism such as fish and fogs can't survive. Samples collected in the craters suggest that the springs' bacterias are very diverse. The top of the springs' rocks are covered with green biofilms that use sunlight and sulfide to survive. The bacterias advance in the severe enviroment. A marine microbiologist for the Max Planck Institute in Germany says Middle Eastern salt lake is a "fantastic hot spot for life,"


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3 comments:

  1. i was thinking if we soak a slice of pork in the dead sea, we may b able to make a yummy spam:D...just kidding:P

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  2. naokooooo thats scary comment! and i dont get why it can be spam... lol
    anyway, are they new kinda life? or just they werent founded? if they are new kinda life, it is amazing how animals can adjust the environment!

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  3. I also saw read this article. It is really interesting. How can they live in Dead sea.
    Anyway, I think Naoko is very creative. Spam...

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