A CONSCIOUS SEA?

GAIA NEWS

U.S. researchers have discovered communities of infinitesimal creatures in our oceans react in unison to changes in their environment. They rely on each other to almost the same extent as the different cells in a human body.

 

As an example, if one set of the microbes were, say, creating energy through photosynthesis, which would then produce carbon dioxide, another set of microbes would somehow know and react - perhaps preparing to absorb the carbon dioxide. 

 

Non-photosynthetic, carbon-eating microbes of very different species displayed synchronised, rapidly varying metabolic gene expression - despite the fact that they came from groups as different as humans and fungi.

Read more at   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2278137/Could-sea-conscious-Research-reveals-tiny-plankton-behave-like-marine-microbial-megamind.html

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