Okay, they named a newly discovered worm ‘Halicephalobus mephisto‘? That is too cool. And why shouldn’t the Lord of the Underworld come in worm-form? Are worms not the symbol of death?
What am I talking about, you ask? They’ve discovered multicellular roundworms living up to two miles below the surface of the Earth. I also found it interesting that scientists now think that more than half of the biological mass on Earth is not actually on Earth but below the surface.
I guess this makes life of other planets and moons much more likely, but also possibly much harder to find.
Anything that can live two miles below the surface of Earth can probably survive almost anything that happens up here. They even found a bacteria down there that feeds on decaying radiation from rocks. Good luck killing them off with nuclear weapons.
