My Three Things

My article is called Living long beneath the sea, and I got it from www.sciencenewsforkids.org. Some individuals who were involved were Hans Roy, a biologist from Aarhus University in Denmark. Who was been studying microbes that live beneath the Pacific Ocean, near the equator. Karen Lloyd, a biologist at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She’s worked with Roy but not on this study. Lastly, Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, Calif., has been involved in astrobiology research for years. A couple of quotes I found were very insightful and brilliant! One of them is “shot in the arm for astronomers looking for life in other places.” In other words, the discovery of life in surprising places gives scientists hope of finding it in the most unusual places of all: other planets. The other one is “These organisms are so different from anything we know”. What it says in the article to back this up is “these organisms may live for an astonishingly long time — perhaps millions of years. The clay they call home settled onto the ocean floor 86 million years ago. They may be tens, or hundreds, or thousands, or even millions of years old, he says. These organisms need oxygen and nutrients to survive. Most of their food drifts down from the surface, such as the dead algae that eventually sink.” This article was important to me because it saying that there are a number of bacteria found in the call home that biologists are still studying today. They predict that there might have living organisms on mars or on one of Jupiter’s moon. They stated that if there is it won’t walk on two legs or be able to talk.

Living long beneath the sea www.sciencenewsforkids.org Jessie Wohner
2nd bell
11/13/12
In the muck beneath the ocean floor, there’s something alive. Lots of somethings. But don’t worry: You’ll never see them. Instead, these tiny, one-celled germs are content to hunker down in very