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Microbes Were Dormant for Over 100 Million Years, But They Were Able to Spring Back to Life

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Microbes Were Dormant for Over 100 Million Years, But They Were Able to Spring Back to Life

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    Microbes Were Dormant for Over 100 Million Years, But They Were Able to Spring Back to Life
    by Evan Gough

    At the bottom of the ocean in the South Pacific Gyre, there’s a sediment layer that is among the most nutrient-starved environments on Earth. Because of conditions in that area, there’s almost no “marine snow”—the shower of organic debris common in the ocean—that falls to the ocean floor. Without all that organic debris falling to …

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