Tag: Peru

  • Nature’s Ceaseless Variety Produces Living Rock

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     Jess Zimmerman‘s entertaining piece about a sea creature that looks like a rock is, well…strange. se The fact that this sea creature looks exactly like a rock with guts is not even the weirdest thing about it. It’s also completely immobile like a rock — it eats by sucking in water and filtering out microorganisms — and its…

  • World’s on planet earth we are just beginning to discover

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    Joseph Russell / University of Delaware By Douglas Main LiveScience Beneath the seafloor lives a vast and diverse array of microbes, chomping on carbon that constantly rains down from above and is continually buried by a never-ending downpour of debris — some whale dung here, some dead plankton there. For the first time, a study…