Strange Life Forms That Appeared Alive Found Inside 2 Billion Year Old Rocks
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Published 2024-07-21
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about an incredible discovery of life that appears to be alive and came from 2 billion year old rocks
Links:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.08.602455v…
www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00099.html
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0:00 Evidence for early life on Earth
0:57 Series of papers from Japan that finds bizarre life
2:55 How it survived - clay
3:55 Now: South Africa
4:30 Incredible discovery of microbes that seem to be alive
5:40 How they survived this and what it shows us
6:35 What this means for Mars
7:40 What about exoplanets?
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All Comments (21)
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I am happy to see that 1,329,999 other people love Anton as I do. 😊
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so couldn't this technically mean that bacteria may be dormant beneath the surface of mars? Mars does have clay after all (oh this was mentioned in the video afterwards)
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Earlier this week, you shared supernova news with us Now you've topped that with paleobiology. Another wonderful video, Anton.
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The best channel for science updates. Great presenter. I am a permanent fan. Trust him for the true facts.
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Life finds a way.
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This is one video that definitely needs a follow up Anton! Fascinating stuff.
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ANTON I believe you are a wonderful person and I truly appreciate(love)the variety of knowledge you share with us on a daily basis... Thank you for being a wonderful person...
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I wonder what they would find if yhey drilled into some parts of the Canadian Shield? Some of that rock is extremely old as well...
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Anton bringing knowledge to the world again.
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"Bacteria billions and billions of years old!" Anton has the ghost of Sagan in him.
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anton is great. i believe ive been watching you occasionally since you maybe had 50k subs. its crazy to the amount of recognition youve gotten
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Love your content Anton! Every time. You're a wonderful science communicator and manage to find fascinating studies for every video.
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Thanks Anton, watching Anton is scientifically proven to improve your day ( even if it's not been great ) and it definitely improves your mind. You even inspired me to make my own YT channel 💛!
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Very exciting, please talk more about paleobiology and abiogenesis!
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You are my go-to for all kinds of science factoids. I learn a lot from you, Anton.
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Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. ✌️😁
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As a marine micropaleontologist I don't find this at all surprising. Age of the sediment probably is not as important as depth of burial and the temperature/pressure regime the bacteria were in. I'll guess we'll find them most similar to other extremophiles. Smectite is a highly layered, highly expandable type of clay mineral. In this case expandable means it's very prone to fitting water molecules and other similar-sized polar molecules and cations into it's interlayer structure. A great place to stash water, nutrients and waste products in you're a bacteria.
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Anton, this finding of living bacteria in deep igneous rocks may also explain why we geologists have found so much petroleum where we never expected to find it. If so then some oil may not technically be a fossil fuel, since its production might be an on going, living, process. Just maybe??!!
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2 million year old dna fragments found a couple years ago and now billions year old bacteria..life continues to astound us with its survival
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Earth likely has temperate locations underground with billion-year-old microbes. For these samples I'm skeptical, since microbes could migrate across clays over thousands and millions of years. To convince me the sample has to be very alien genetically and have a very convincing geological habitat boundary.
