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Monday, January 15, 2007

The complexity of life in the oceans continues to show us just how little we know about the world we live on. A team of European scientists analyzing DNA in samples of seawater discovered an entirely new form of life. These new "picobiliphytes" are so different from anything else in the ocean one scientist said, "In fact, the divergence of this group from known organisms is as great as the difference between land plants and animals." And, yet, some people are so cocky as to think we know everything about the world and there's nothing left unexplained in our modern day of scientific knowledge...

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