China scientists discover giant viruses in the deepest place on Earth:
The first known batch of viruses retrieved from the deepest point in the Mariana Trench includes giant species bigger than some bacterium, according to a research team in Shanghai.
The many legends of giant sea creatures have been largely debunked because of the challenges to large, complex life forms at the greatest ocean depths.
But the researchers discovered several giant viral species, including mimiviruses – which typically use amoeba as their hosts – in sediments taken from a seabed nearly 11,000 metres (36,000 feet) below sea level at Challenger Deep.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:14PM (1 child)
No, silly: the bats dove down and got it and spread it to humans that way!
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(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday July 31 2021, @08:56PM
Wait, I can't have something that large infect me, such as via the respiratory or oral route [youtu.be]!