A gold mine in South Africa
Scientists have discovered a small bug which lives entirely on its own, without oxygen, in complete darkness. They say it is the loneliest creature on the planet!
Join Dima and Rebecca as they are listening to and discussing an interview with one of those scientists.
This week's question:
The lonely bug lives without oxygen, so how do you think it gets its energy? Is it from:
Listen to the programme
Lonely bug
a) gold
b) sulphate, or
c) iron?
Listen out for the answer in the programme.
Vocabulary from the programme
- to speculate on something
- to suggest, or to guess that something is possible
- blueprint
- a full and detailed plan of something
- ecosystems
- this word describes living organisms and the environments where they live
- genome
- a complete set of genes, or full genetic information
- extraterrestrial
- coming from outer space, from planets other than Earth
- to evolve
- to develop slowly
- it may well be
- this common expression means 'it's quite possible'
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