100 Million Years Old ‘Lifeless’ Seafloor Microbes Sprang Up To Life With Food

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Researchers have successfully revived tiny microbes trapped dormant in a seemingly lifeless zone of the seabed for more than 100 million years, reports the Science Alert.

What is it?

A team of scientists from Japan and America were looking to see whether microscopic life survives in the less-than-hospitable conditions beneath the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean.

“We wanted to know how long the microbes could sustain their life in a near-absence of food,”said microbiologist Yuki Morono from the...

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