A teaspoon of healthy soil contains more living organisms than there are humans on Earth, yet scientists say most species remain unknown
- Image AI generatedBeneath every footstep lies a world most of us will never see.
- A single teaspoon of soil, scooped from a healthy forest floor, holds more living organisms than there are humans on the planet, bacteria, fungi, protists and nematodes packed together in numbers that barely make sense on a human scale.
- Stranger still, the vast majority of these creatures have never been named or formally described.
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- Image AI generatedBeneath every footstep lies a world most of us will never see.
- A single teaspoon of soil, scooped from a healthy forest floor, holds more living organisms than there are humans on the planet, bacteria, fungi, protists and nematodes packed together in numbers that barely make sense on a human scale.
- Stranger still, the vast majority of these creatures have never been named or formally described.
Sources: Times of India