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Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100 million years old, from beneath the sea

from Science Magazine

Scientists pull living microbes, possibly 100 million years old, from beneath the sea Science Magazine Microbes buried beneath the sea floor for more than 100 million years are still alive, a new study reveals. When brought back to the lab and fed, they started to multiply. The microbes are oxygen-loving species that somehow exist on what little of the gas diffuses from the ocean surface deep into the seabed. READ MORE

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