Russia: Discovering new creatures in Lake Baikal

A new species that has never been known has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Baikal of Russia, the deepest freshwater lake in the world.

The creature was discovered on August 11 when two submarines "Peace -1" and "Peace -2" dove deep into the bottom of Lake Baikal. These two submarines have taken to the surface some sponges that live on the bottom of the lake.

This is a creature with a simpler structure, even among non-vertebrate multicellular animals, without distinctly distinguished tissues and separate organs. The assumption is that this is a green sponge that has not been studied in Lake Baikal.

According to scientists, sponges consist of about 5,000 different types, all of which live immobile in the water, in which the vast majority live in the sea. Sponges are a kind of invertebrate, which looks like a bubble, the body is simple, has many spines or soft fibers.

Earlier, while using the two submarines mentioned above to dive into the bottom of Barguzin Bay, the largest bay in Lake Baikal, at a depth of nearly 1,000 meters, Russian scientists have also discovered a species of worm that has never been studied. Save earlier.

It is expected that in the Baikal Lake research program, Russian scientists will carry out a total of nearly 160 dive trips at different locations of the lake to study oil and gas reserves, tectonic phenomena as well as search. artifacts here.

Lake Baikal is located in southern Siberia region of Russia, 636 km long, contains 23,000 billion m3 of water, accounting for 20% of the world's freshwater reserves, 90% of Russia. There are many animals and plants here that are not available in any lake on the earth.