Scientists believe they have proved there probably isn't "a limit to life anywhere" after they successfully "revived and multiplied" ancient microbes which had been deep within the seafloor for more than 100 million years.
The team of scientists working in the US and Japan found that the deep-sea microorganisms were capable of growing and dividing, even after remaining in an energy-saving state since dinosaurs roamed the planet.The researchers said their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, initially took them by surprise.Study co-author Steven D’Hondt, a professor at the University of Rhode Island, told Inverse that the goal was to “understand what life is like in the deadest marine sedimentary community we could think.
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