In a remarkable development, researchers have discovered microbes encased within the fault of a 2-billion-year-old rock. This ...

Scientists found living microbes in a 2-billion-year-old rock in South Africa, providing insights into early life on Earth ...

Microbes have been able to find a home in some truly incredible places, even inside of ancient rocks.... | Microbiology ...

Microbes -- alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface ...

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from ...

A 2-billion-year-old rock in South Africa has yielded an incredible discovery: living microbes trapped within its sealed ...

Scientists have identified living microbes within a 2-billion-year-old rock formation, marking the oldest known instance of ...

as igneous rocks form when hot, molten rock crystallizes and solidifies. Mars was a volcanically active planet for millions of years, which could have created the environment in which this rock ...

First Phosphate believes that Quebec igneous anorthosite phosphate rock is an untapped source of high purity phosphate which ...

A sealed rock fracture almost 50 feet below ground has remained home to microbes for the last 2 billion years—the oldest life ...

What makes these organisms incredibly special is that they have been cut off for billions of years – far longer than any ...

A study has identified living microbes in 2-billion-year-old rock from the Bushveld Igneous Complex in South Africa. This ...