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Microbiologists Find Living Microbes in 2-Billion-Year-Old Rock


Researchers from the University of Tokyo and elsewhere have found pockets of living microbes in mineral-filled veins within 2-billion-year-old rock from the Bushveld Igneous Complex, South Africa.

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