180-Million-Year-Old Deep-Sea Discovery Could Rewrite Microbial History
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An 180-million-year old deep-sea discovery in Morocco’s Central High Atlas Mountains is a kind of reshaping, not just informing, our view of ancient microbial history. Geologists found delicate fossilized patterns, left behind by prehistoric bacterial communities, in a setting that we used to treat like it was basically empty and lifeless. It’s a huge move, because it pushes against old geological and biological timelines too, and it widens what we think life can manage to do and where it can actually persist.