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How do bacteria survive on food left by the dinosaurs?
« on: 28/08/2012 21:27:25 »
A community of microbes has been found living in 86 million year old deep sea clay, although they’re not exactly thriving – they seem to be surviving at the minimum energy requirement needed to qualify as “alive”.

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