Single-Celled Creatures Found in Marianas Trench

Deep Sea researchers have always wondered about how can an organisms survive at some of the deepest submerged places on Earth. Researchers had discovered that some animals live in underwater deep sea vents, so they were not so surprised to find uni-cellular amoebas living in the Marianas trench, amoebas that are 4 inches long that is. What Animals are these? Xenophysophores, uni-cellular animals that live in the deep sea, but they have never been seen at a depth that deep, 6.6 miles beneath the surface at the sirena deep of the Mariana trench. Before they were found at 4.7 miles. They discovered them special deep sea cameras that look like giant glass spheres that sustain 8 tons per square inch of pressure. They move like slugs, they excrete plasma to filter the sand out and only retain those nutrious particles and tiny animals, such as nematodes. Xenophyphores are known to be hosts for a variety of other life forms. Also, they spied the deepest jellyfish observed to date. It is amazing how much we discover every time we go down there. This is a discovery based experiment. GO BIO!!!!

Source: Popular Science

Name: Single Celled Creatures the size of your fist found in Marianas Trench