Word: jannasch
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Since then, scientific astonishment over the discovery has burgeoned. Unlike most terrestrial life, these creatures in the deep survive without the benefit of sunlight to supply energy or help create food supplies. Rather, they rely totally on the earth's internal heat. Explains Marine Microbiologist Holger Jannasch of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic Institution, which operates the Alvin: "If the sun didn't shine any more, these deep-sea populations would still be growing, while we and all the green plants would die. They depend only on Mother Earth...
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