By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- In a surprising find deep in an underwater cave in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a team of researchers led by a Texas A&M University at Galveston doctoral student have discovered that cave-adapted organisms can exist off of methane gas and the bacteria near it, and it raises the possibility that other life forms are also living this way in similar caves around the world.
David Brankovits, a student from Budapest, Hungary, who led the research for his Ph.D at Texas A&M-Galveston, and fellow researchers from Mexico, The Netherlands, Switzerland, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and the U.S. Geological Survey, have had their work published in the current issue of Nature Communications.
The team examined flooded cave passages within the Ox Bel Ha cave network in the Yucatan where there …
CITATION: (2017-12-12), Texas A&M-Galveston team finds cave organisms living off methane gas, Life Science Weekly, 904, ISSN: 1552-2474, BUTTER® ID: 014822612
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