Bacteria alive (more or less) in 86-million-year-old seabed clay
Friday, May 18, 2012 - 04:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) -- A new study by scientists from Denmark and Germany has found live bacteria trapped in red clay deposited on the ocean floor some 86 million years ago. The bacteria use miniscule amounts of oxygen and move only extremely slowly.
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