Scientists have discovered maybe tunnels of an unknown ancient life

That’s what you will find out after reading this story:

The mysterious microbrarus desert marble and limestone were probably produced by germs that lived millions of years ago.
Exactly what kind of germs were bored in the rock, it remains unknown how it is whether they are still existed or have long disappeared.
Whatever it was, the caves had to be alive, as the researchers were able to reject the weather and the abiotic processes.

For many organisms, rocks are things, not food. However, the Oddball microbial desert limestone seems to have been a menu. However, it is unknown whether this mysterious form of life is still existing or disappeared.

Recently, Geologist Cees Passchier from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainco has encountered small caves in marble and limestone in the deserts of Namibia, Oman and Saudi Arabia. Erosion revealed fossil caves and, although no one was there, Passchier and his research team continued to explore and found biological material inside.

“The biotic origin of observed structures means the presence of liquid water, without which it would be impossible to biological growth,” said the team in a recently published study published Geomicrobiology Journal; “The areas studied are currently dry, but occasionally suffer from rain shower and conventional tank coastal fog, and in the past it has been wet.”

So, what type of micro -rogranism could caves have made? Bacteria, fungi and lichens have shown that they can survive extreme conditions, and some of them are endolithicThis means that they live inside the rocks. Passchier wanted to find out if the organisms that created caves may belong to any of these groups. Mushrooms can drill through the rocks and leave the tubes, and some cyanobacteria also thrive from limestone or marble.

The organisms of the mystery were hardly about cyanobacteria – they need sunlight photosynthesis, so they were almost as deep as the rock that the team found. Fungi secrete digestive agents that were not in rock, and they also create a complex network of hyphae or filaments known as mycelium. Mikeller networks usually have order. The beats were parallel and evenly arranged, which would be unusual for fungi and no other models were observed. So, they are probably not the culprits either.

Because the caves were found to be too widely to produce them only one organism at the same time and showed growth rings, they were more likely to consist of microbial colonies. Calcium carbonate dust found in tunnels is also a common release of microbes living in this type of rock. However, no fossil organisms have been found yet – only evidence of their existence.

However, these failures did not rule out the idea of life. On the contrary, when weather conditions or abiotic chemical processes can cause structures false due to the signs of life, careful microscopic examination showed that this was not the case. The chemical composition of the rock samples from the inside of the caves showed that what forced them to be alive.

“Because no known mechanism of chemical or physical weather conditions can explain the phenomenon with microstructural and geochemical observations here, and microcuts form the host’s rock,” said Passchier and his colleagues, “we suggest that they are biological origin.”

Regardless of what microbes are cut, the tunnels have long been dead, although there are questions about whether the types of secrets are still existing. Perhaps he is still creeping somewhere, digging new tunnel systems to open one day.

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