Sentences with phrase «even tiny microbes»

In fact, even tiny microbes are carbon reservoirs, but scientists tend to group small reservoirs into larger categories (e.g., ocean, atmosphere, biosphere), important at the global scale.

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In addition to the microbes tangled together in the granules, they've found that the watery oases also house other bacteria, algae, fungi, single - celled animals called protozoans, and even tiny invertebrate animals including insect larvae, worms and various tardigrades.

«We had quite sophisticated ecological communities back then, even if they were just tiny little microbes,» says astrobiologist Roger Buick of the University of Washington, who discovered the North Pole stromatolites.

Even though they are too small for the eye to see, and you can meet the tiny creatures in Microbe Zoo.