Sharks feed on fossil fuels??

Revolutionary new research demonstrates that for example sharks and rays lay their eggs in the warm deep water pockets where volcanic activity heats the water and thus creates a completely separate food chain.

It is not in itself nothing new that life thrives around deep-sea volcanoes, far from sunlight and photosynthesis.

That it creates its own ecosystem of bacteria that feed on methane and sulfur instead of oxygen and sunlight are also known . Clams and worms feed on the bacteria and the question is whether the shark and ray fry do it too?

For us humans , this is defenitely news . That there are animals high in the food chain that partially feed from a system that is not driven by photosynthesis. Odd .

For sharks and rays, it is however no news . Paleontologists have found fossils from tapeworms that lived in similar underwater volcanoes, and also fossil shark eggs too. At least 200 million years old.

You feel a little paltry facing such huge numbers

But it sure is amazing! ?