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TIL: Scientists found microbes buried beneath the sea floor that divide once every 10,000 years and are as much as 100 million years old.
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Do they do anything else, or do they just sit around being microscopic for 10,000 years until it’s time to split?
I don’t know enough about microbiology to understand how they know these things divide every 10,000 years. It’s clearly not directly observable given the time scale.