• Question: Do you reckon there COULD be any life forms in the Mariana (not sure if I spelt that right) Trench?

    Asked by donkey123 to Hayley on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Hayley Evers-King

      Hayley Evers-King answered on 13 Mar 2013:


      There are indeed life forms in the Mariana trench! Even at the very deepest point – the Challenger deep – they have found tiny organisms called foraminifera living in the sediments! We seem to be finding life everywhere we look, even in the most hostile of environments!

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