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

[Oxytropidoceras]

Bacteria dug up from beneath the seabed may be

100 million years old, New Scientist, July 28, 2020

 

New York Time article. July 28, 2020

 

The 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.