Could These 830 Million Year Old Microbes Found In Salt Really Be Alive?

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a discovery of an unusual sample of rock salt that may contain living 830 million year old bacteria in it
Links:
https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1751-7915.13980
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/doi/10.1130/G49957.1/613521/830-million-year-old-microorganisms-in-primary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halite
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09553000210155905?journalCode=irab20
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0016703788901032
https://www.jhuapl.edu/NewsStory/220126b-mars-salt-deposits
#biology #ancientlife #discovery

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Schreder-Gomes et al., Geology, 2022
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Kathleen C. Benison (West Virginia University, WV, USA). https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1751-7915.13980
Lech Darski CC BY-SA 4.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halite#/media/File:Halit_(NaCl)_-_Kopalnia_soli_Wieliczka,_Polska.jpg
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Rob Lavinsky CC-BY-SA-3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halite#/media/File:Halite-249324.jpg
Loron et al., Nature, 2019 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1217-0

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