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Micro-organisms found in 460,000-year-old seabed layer
Japanese researchers say they have confirmed the existence of a community of micro-organisms thriving in a seabed layer formed more than 400,000 years ago in northern Japan.
Microbes collected from a 400,000-year-old layer of earth under the seabed off Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture (Provided by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_...J2011110316521
Japanese researchers say they have confirmed the existence of a community of micro-organisms thriving in a seabed layer formed more than 400,000 years ago in northern Japan.
Microbes collected from a 400,000-year-old layer of earth under the seabed off Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture (Provided by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_...J2011110316521