- Biologists dug into sediment more than 3.5 miles beneath the South Pacific Gyre and uncovered 101.5 million-year-old microbial communities, still capable of reproducing in lab experiments. The abyssal plain where the microbes were discovered was previously believed to be entirely lifeless. https://www.inverse.com/science/ancient-microbes-extreme-life-study 1043 comments science
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