Was first discovered in multicellular km depth below ground

Authors, a team led by Tullis Onstott (Tullis Onstott) from Princeton University (USA), conducted studies in one of the deepest mines of the world – Beatrix gold mine in South Africa, resulting in found that at a depth of several kilometers inhabited by several species of nematodes, including one not previously known. Scientists have named it "hellish" name – Halicephalobus mephisto. After the opening of the first living creatures at great depths under the ground for about 20 years it was thought that this area is inhabited by only single-celled organisms that can live at depths of up to three kilometers from the surface. High temperatures, lack of oxygen and free space, scientists believe, precludes the existence of a more complex multicellular organisms. But now scientists have discovered nematodes in the water contained in a layer of solid rock, at depths ranging from 0.9 to 3.6 kilometers, and these nematodes were not in mine waters. In this age of the fracture, which was water, ranged from 3 to 12 thousand years – that is, nematodes were not included here from the outside. "These underground nematodes … well tolerate high temperatures, reproduce asexually way and feed mainly on bacteria," – says the article. The authors note that their findings show that these nematodes can be found in other environments, oxygen-poor, where the temperature can and should control the population of microorganisms. "The opening of multicellular organisms deep in the earth is also important to search for subsurface life in the Solar System" – the scientists.