Scientists have resurrected ancient microbes from permafrost cores of Late-Pleistocene age (up to 40,000 years old) collected from four locations within the Permafrost Research Tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska. They’ve found that the microbes in thawing subsurface permafrost exhibit a slow ‘reawakening’ at first, but within six months the microbial community undergoes dramatic changes. Abundance of Archaea across samples collected from the Permafrost...
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