Bacteria survive millennia nibbling on salad

Monday, December 14, 2009 - 15:07 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Imagine you were trapped in a room for weeks with nothing to eat but a single leaf of lettuce.  For microscopic bacteria holed up in ancient buried salt flats in California's Death Valley, that's life. Death Valley - California - Bacteria - United States - Salad

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