Comment on First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Inaccurate title. They don’t consume methane at all. They ‘farm’ methane powered bacteria that deposits sugars and fats.
They aren’t methane powered, the bacteria is. They are sugar and fat powered.
neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
The Article makes it sound like lichen. A symbiosis so close and a host evolutionarily completely adapted to this symbiosis, I’m okay with drawing the line there and calling it metgan-consuming. We have to draw the line somewhere afterall :))