"Ancient DNA Found Hidden Below Sea Floor" Topic
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Tango01  | 10 May 2013 12:05 p.m. PST |
"In the middle of the South Atlantic, there's a patch of sea almost devoid of life. There are no birds, few fish, not even much plankton. But researchers report that they've found buried treasure under the empty waters: ancient DNA hidden in the muck of the sea floor, which lies 5000 meters below the waves. The DNA, from tiny, one-celled sea creatures that lived up to 32,500 years ago, is the first to be recovered from the abyssal plains, the deep-sea bottoms that cover huge stretches of Earth. In a separate finding published this week, another research team reports teasing out plankton DNA that's up to 11,400 years old from the floor of the much shallower Black Sea. The researchers say that the ability to retrieve such old DNA from such large stretches of the planet's surface could help reveal everything from ancient climate to the evolutionary ecology of the seas.…"
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Armand |
 Parzival | 10 May 2013 9:37 p.m. PST |
Run for your lives! It's the Old Ones! O, the madness! The madness! AAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Tango01 | 10 May 2013 10:50 p.m. PST |
Ha!Ha!Ha! You make me laught my friend (big smile). Amicalement
Armand |
| 15th Hussar | 11 May 2013 6:13 a.m. PST |
Ohhhh, they're not THAT old…one of them is my Mother in Law! |
 Saginaw | 11 May 2013 6:44 a.m. PST |
Echoes of the legendary lost kingdom of Atlantis, perhaps? Hmmmm. Great find, Armand!  |
| Tango01 | 11 May 2013 11:38 a.m. PST |
Glad you had enjoy the article my friend!. Amicalement
Armand |
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