Scientists have managed to revive microbes that are over 100 million years old, which have been lying on the seabed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. How did they manage to do this and, more importantly, why are they doing this?



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Scientists have managed to <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/scientists-pull-living-microbes-100-million-years-beneath-sea">revive microbes that are over 100 million years old</a>, which have been lying on the seabed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. How did they manage to do this and, more importantly, why are they doing this?

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