Imagine taking all of the trees, grass, animals, insects, fish, coral, and bacteria on the surface of the earth and in the sea.

Basically, everything on the planet.

If you were to add it all up, all of the biomass, it'd be quite a bit.

Yet according to some scientists, that might not even account for most of the life on Earth.

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To start this discussion, when I'm talking about the deep biosphere, I'm not talking about the

soil, the layer where all the worms and the roots are. For the purposes of this discussion I'm going to call that the surface.

What I am talking about is everything below that, starting at about 2 meters down all the way

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