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100 million-year-old sea microbes are alive and thriving, study finds – WTMA
Humans can go without food for about three weeks before the effects of starvation begin to kill them.Some microbes deep underneath the seafloor have us beat: They can survive with barely any sustenance for more than 100 million years.These microorganisms live…
Humans can go without food for about three weeks before the effects of starvation begin to kill them.
Some microbes deep underneath the seafloor have us beat: They can survive with barely any sustenance for more than 100 million years.
These microorganisms live more than 18,000 feet underneath the ocean surface in an area so deep it’s called the subseafloor, below the seafloor.
These sparse microbial populations exist in the slowly accumulating oxygen-filled sediment of the South Pacific Gyre…
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