Bacteria dug up from beneath the seabed may be
100 million years old, New Scientist, July 28, 2020
[www.newscientist.com]
[www.nytimes.com]

The paper is:

Morono, Y., Ito, M., Hoshino, T. et al. Aerobic
microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as
old as 101.5 million years. Nat. Commun. 11, 3626 (2020).
[www.nature.com]

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)