Forty-eight species of leeches, spiders, scorpions and insects were found inside the cave, living in a world of utter darkness. The food chain is based on chemosynthesis rather than photosynthesis, whereby there is methane and sulfur oxidizing bacteria, which releases nutrients for the fungi and other bacteria. This forms microbial mats on the cave walls and the surface of lakes and ponds that is grazed on by some of the animals. The grazers are then preyed on by larger predatory species.

The cave system with its unique and hidden life forms was the basis for the horror/science fiction movie ‘The Cave’, starring Cole Hauser (2005).

HIDDEN OCEANS

Earth's oldest body of water, found beneath Canada, contains more than all of the world's rivers, swamps and lakes put together.

Huge reserves of the oldest water on Earth are locked deep within the planet's crust and could be home to new forms of life, according to scientists. Geologists have revealed they have found water that is up to two-point-seven billion years old in sites all over the world. They now estimate there could be around two and a half million cubic miles of this water buried beneath the ground.

RICHARD GRAY, MAILONLINE. 18 December 2014

AND FINALLY:

This was a real news story included in Channel 9’s newsfeed from 2014 – Australian filmmakers contracted for a marine investigation are baffled as to what had taken a ten-foot Great White Shark they tagged as part of the study. The shark disappeared on the edge of Australia’s continental shelf, with the electronic tag later washing ashore two miles from where the shark was originally tagged.

The data recordings from the tag shocked the researchers, as it seemed the shark took a high-speed deep dive down the side of shelf to a depth of fifteen hundred feet, and then the tag recorded a large temperature change from nine degrees to twenty-four and half degrees where it remained for eight days.

The film making investigators drew only one conclusion — the Great White had been eaten by a "super predator" of the deep – type unknown.

Channel 9 Technology News - 3:40pm June 8, 2014

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