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Re:Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly (2014) by throwawaylinux on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:15PM (#36206803)
Are there species of bacteria that are substantially unchanged in a billion years?
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Re:Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly (2014) by lazide on Monday June 05, 2023 @09:57PM (#36207103)
No way to know for sure. But many bacteria today look very similar to what little bit of maybe fossils we might have.
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Re:Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly (2014) by dekhn on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:37PM (#36215431)
Morphologies of cyanobacteria show that fossils from billion+ years ago show little change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite
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