A life less obvious: Study sheds light on the evolution of underground microbes

ScienceDaily
Nov 2, 2021, 11:12 am63 pts
Precambrian cratons -- some of Earth's oldest rocks -- were uninhabitable for microbes for much of their existence, with the longest period of habitability not much beyond a billion years, and many only for the past 50 million to 300 million years, according to a paper correlating Earth's deep biosphere with…

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