Scientists revive 100-million-year-old microbes buried in the ocean floor

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I was thinking that! That is one creepy ass show.

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I think similar microbes got to Trump very early on.

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Deploy the Flying Giant Butter Squadron!

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So, the scientists stated that the sediment they drilled down to is 100M years old. How did they determine that the organisms found therein are also 100M years old? Is it impossible for much younger microbes to squiggle their way down there? Any biologists or oceanographers out there who could help with these questions? :slightly_smiling_face:

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I imagine that Peter Watts is looking for a quick way off planet right now.

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Just wait until the arctic permafrost thaws - all that stuff lurking in the mud in Alaska and Canada.

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Oh man, came for this. Leaving satisfied!
Thanks for posting the old school version.

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Tin Star meets Carpenter’s The Thing. I loved how it just had no qualms about getting more and more weird. Great show.

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or for the experiment to be contaminated by modern bacteria after the samples are brought up

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