After 7,000 years without light and oxygen in Baltic Sea mud, researchers bring prehistoric algae back to life

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Mar 28, 2025, 10:27 am649 ptsHotTop
A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) was able to revive dormant stages of algae that sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea almost 7,000 years ago. Despite thousands of years of inactivity in the sediment without light and oxygen, the investigated diatom species…

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