Rahul Agarwal
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Zombies like bacteria!!!
By Rahul Agarwal 4097 days ago
Do you believe in Zombies stories … Hmm confused? Don’t worry there is a news for you. Scientists from the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program have announced the findings of the long-lived bacteria, reproducing only once every 10,000 years, which have been found in rocks 2.5km (1.5 miles) below the ocean floor that are as much as 100 million years old.
" the microbes exist in very low concentrations, of around 1,000 microbes in every tea spoon full of rock, compared with billions or trillions of bacteria that would typically be found in the same amount of soil at Earth's surface."
Reference:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23855436
