These Crazy Organisms Were Found Lurking in Yellowstone National Park

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Biology was nearly broken around 100 years ago when scientists discovered single-celled organisms that could create methane as a byproduct of their own natural processes. Now, we’re being thrown once again, as researchers have discovered another class of creatures with the same ability.

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00:00biology was nearly broken around a hundred years ago when scientists discovered single-cell

00:09organisms that could create methane as a by-product of their own natural processes

00:13now we're being thrown once again as researchers have discovered another class of creatures with

00:18the exact same ability their methane producing prokaryotes and two varieties were recently

00:23found in hot springs in yellowstone national park they come from a different phylum than

00:27the previously mentioned methanogenesis uriarchariota both groups however do not require

00:32oxygen rather converting methanol to methane for survival and these findings have been corroborated

00:38by researchers on the other side of the world as well researchers in china discovered similar

00:42organisms in an oil field with the researchers writing our findings confirm that the diversity

00:47of methanogens expands beyond the classical uriarchariota experts now know that methanogens

00:53are the reason for most of the methane in our atmosphere even more than our planet's volcanoes

00:57meaning they are also an important part of both atmospheric emissions and earth's general carbon cycle

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