Soil beneath ocean found to harbor long lived bacteria, fungi and viruses
Thursday, August 29, 2013 - 10:01
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Researchers with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) have presented findings at this year's Goldschmidt conference. They report having found bacteria, fungi and viruses living a mile and a half beneath the ocean floor—such specimens, they report, appear to be millions of years old and reproduce only every 10,000 years.