About 200 scientists from 52 countries expressed their belief that an unknown ecosystem, in which organisms lived under the Earth's crust at a depth of five meters. According to preliminary estimates, their weight can be from 15 to 23 billion tons. The total volume of organism is estimated at two billion km.
We are talking about bacteria, bacteria and other microorganisms, including worms. About 70 percent of organisms living under the earth's crust are also found on the planet's surface, but in a hidden ecosystem, they behave and develop different, because they do not see sunlight, reporting KP.RU.
In January 2025, during the surface research of glaciers in Antarctica, scientists discovered Feasible ecosystem. Iceberg, which can be compared to the size of chicago, turns out to be the habitat of many marine creatures, including species that science does not know. The remote devices fall to the depth of the fish, coral and lips. Scientists noted that, according to the size of the organisms, these communities have existed for decades or even hundreds of years.