DELICATE CREATURES LIVE SEVEN MILES UNDER WATER.(News)

From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: February 4, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Scripps Howard News Service

They are among the most delicate creatures on Earth, yet they thrive in the deepest part of any ocean on the planet, under a crushing 16,000 pounds per square inch of water pressure.

A team of Japanese and British scientists reports in the journal Science today that it has found hundreds of soft-walled, single-celled creatures living at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean's Challenger Deep, more than seven miles beneath the ...

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