4. Jurassic Microbes
Getting buried 86 million years ago without food or oxygen would be enough to kill most living things. A community of microbes found beneath the Pacific Ocean floor did it. E. Coli divides and reproduces once every 17 minutes. These do it once every thousand years. They evolved to survive in one of the harshest environments known to man, without food and barely any oxygen, and were successful in doing so. These microbes outlasted the dinosaurs, the fall of Rome, and David Hasselhoff.
The study of these microbes is raising really interesting questions about alien life and our own knowledge of microbial life.
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