The hard-to-sea life: Stunning pictures of the 'nonillion' magical microbes of the ocean

The ocean depths are home to myriad species of microbes, mostly hard to see but including spaghetti-like bacteria that form mats the size of Greece on the floor of the Pacific. The survey, part of a 10-year Census of Marine Life, turned up hosts of unknown microbes - some of them looking like extras in a science fiction movie and underpinning all life in the seas. 'In no other realm of