Scientists have opened a former unknown ecosystem in the Pacific Ocean

The influence of the day on the ecosystem was learned to compensate the gases emerging from the cracks of the bottom of the ocean.

A group of sea researchers announced the opening of a new deep ecosystem complex, where life exists thanks to chemosynthetic organisms that receive energy from gases that appear from cracks under the ocean. This is stated in a study published in the journal NatureCNN report.

During the expedition, scientists discovered methanogenic microbes and marine invertebrates, adapted to the presence in harsh conditions without sunlight.

The geochemist Mengund Du during the underwater mission decided to explore the last section of the ocean between Alaska and the Russian Federation, at a depth of 5800 to 9,500 meters in the So -Called Handal Zone. He noticed “amazing -wonderful creatures”, among which the different types of mollusks and tubular worms have not yet encountered depth.

“It’s about a 2500 -Cilometer site that our team considers the deepest well -known ecosystem of organisms that use Mitein rather than sunlight to survive,” said Du, co -Author of study.

The Hadal zone includes ocean and Hollows – one of the deepest and least studied media in the world.

“For life, special mechanisms of safety and adaptation are required there,” explained professor of the Institute of Deep Wooden Sciences and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

One of these mechanisms is the bacteria that reside in mollusks and tubular worms that become methane and hydrogen sulfide in energy and nutrition for the owner. It allows you to live in absolute darkness.

The discovery suggests that such ecosystems may exist in other deleted gutters, opening new reach to study the safety limits of living organisms.

After analyzing sediment samples, scientists discovered an unexpected high level of methane – a substance that is usually present at low concentrations in large depths.

Scientists have suggested that thanks to special ecosystem microbes, which turns methane and hydrogen sulfide from ocean cracks to organic compounds.

The latter is used as a source of food animals of these bacteria. Then the bacteria create carbon dioxide from organic compounds, and methane from it. The substance helps to survive microbes, which participate in chemosynthesis – the transformation of organic ingredients from the poor.

Thus, the discovery contradicts the former opinion that chemosynthetic communities are fed by organic collapse from the ocean surface. It has now been proven that methanogenic microbes have created their own source of nutrition molecules.

Scientists now believe that the Hadal gutter is not only tanks, but also the “processing centers” of methane, where “most carbon is preserved in sediment and processed by microorganisms.”

Researchers note that chemosynthetic communities is not a new phenomenon, but the opening of the opening is admired. Joanna Veston, an oceanologist from the Woods-Hol Oceanography Institute in the United States, emphasized that it emphasizes the role of technologies that can withstand high pressure depths in discovering new forms of life.

Scientists expect further international joint research, such as UNESCO’s Global Hadal Program and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, will help to understand the adaptation of organisms to extreme conditions.

“Although the Hadal Groove is a very strong and uncontrollable environment … (Chemosynthetic organism) can live happily there,” Du said.

Earlier, oceanographers from the Ocean Schmidt Institute discovered a giant underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean, which exceeds the height of the world’s highest skyscraper.

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