[Rockhounds] Relict (Autochthonous) Microbial Community Reported From Cretaceous Oozes, South Pacific Gyre

[Paul]

Bacteria dug up from beneath the seabed may be
100 million years old, New Scientist, July 28, 2020
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2250035-bacteria-dug-up-from-beneath-the-seabed-may-be-100-million-years-old/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/science/microbes-100-million-years-old.html

The open access paper is:

Morono, Y., Ito, M., Hoshino, T. et al. Aerobic
microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as
old as 101.5 million years. Nat. Commun. 11, 3626 (2020).

Yours,

Paul H.