Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Finding microbes living deep underground is surprising, although it’s happened before. But researchers were very surprised to find cyanobacteria, which normally requires light for photosynthesis, living in deeply-buried rock in Spain. A team led by Fernando Puente-Sánchez of the Spanish Centre of Astrobiology in Madrid dug a borehole 2011 feet deep and examined the sample they brought up.
The presence of cyanobacteria was so unexpected, they dug another hole to control for contamination. The cyanobacteria was there, also.So what’s going on? How can these…
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