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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.
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(Score: 1) by Coligny on Sunday August 01 2021, @02:15AM (1 child)
Not this sh1t again …
If I wanted to be moderated by mor0nic groupthinking retards I would still be on Digg and Reddshit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 01 2021, @12:22PM
So you think all reasearch on viruses should stop? How would that help. You've committed a hasty generalisation - some bd therefore all bad. Please evolve a less binary brain.