Researchers Identify Mysterious Life Forms in the Extreme Deep Sea

During a July 2011 voyage to the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, the deepest region on the planet, Scripps researchers and National Geographic engineers deployed untethered free-falling/ascending landers equipped with digital video and lights to search the largely unexplored region. The team documented the deepest known existence of xenophyophores, single-celled animals exclusively found in deep-sea environments. Xenophyophores are noteworthy for their size, with individual cells often exceeding 10 centimeters (4 inches), their extreme abundance on the seafloor and their role as hosts for a variety of organisms.

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[gartini]

Vsauce2 army approaching..

[Bollatic]

0:30 They see me rollin', they hatin'

[TheGodzillTroll]

Quick! Capture one and sell it's duplicates as pets!

[Ben Widdup]

I think there is no scarier place on earth -even though impossible at the moment but to be on the deepest point of the ocean at the floor in the pitch black darkness. I think you would see some crazy shit, like have you seen those bioluminescent deep sea creatures, the deeper you go the more alien like the creatures become. What if there are are human/alien like intelligence that live at the deepest levels? we haven't explored the water any where nearly completely.

[teckwizz123]

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[TheCaliger]

This is actually sort of frightening.

[TheCaliger]

Hell, look at Tardigrades. They can survive in space, and they live on our planet. Why not an organism that adapts to about anything, that is just a cell. I mean, if a cell can be that big... Well, that /is/ an eye opener. I need more info on these single cells.

[moneyquickeasy]

I absolutely agree with this.

[Agarzilla]

Looks like Steve has found the Stronghold

[pufixas]

That's no fun...

[AvoSix]

Ive always thought the same thing. Like, If there are other planets not like earth, Who says they cant have life. They are bound to have materials other than what we have. hell, We have a couple of spots on the periodic table that are materials we haven't even discovered. Other life probably doesn't have to evolve how ours does so who says air is needed?