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Life Is Found Thriving at Ocean’s Deepest Point
Yokosuka, Japan - At the ocean's deepest point, the water pressure is the equivalent of having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you. Yet even here life thrives, according to scientists who have pulled a plug of dirt from the seafloor.
Brian Huber is the curator of foraminifera at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He said the discovery of abundant soft-walled foraminifera in Challenger Deep is "one more example of how you can find life in the most extreme environments."