Scientists Revived A 100-Million-Year Old Microbes.

Scientists have successfully revived 100 million-year-old microbes that have laid dormant at the bottom of the sea for the age of the dinosaurs. The revival allowed the organisms to eat, grow, and even multiply for the first time after aeons in the deep blue.

The research sheds light on the extraordinary survival power of any of Earth's most primitive species. Which can exist for millions of years with little to no oxygen or food, while expending virtually no energy?

The microbes came from the oldest deposit drilled in the seabed of the South Pacific, a region renowned for having far fewer nutrients than normal, making it far from ideal site to maintain life over millennia. The researchers said it was a mystery how these seabed organisms had managed to survive.