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and on today's episode, a two billion-year-old rock is found to house living microbes. Weird Wednesday

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Well, as has become customary here on Cool Stuff, Ride Home, turning to Science Daily to get us kicked off.

Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2 billion-year-old rock.

The rock was excavated from the Bushveld Igneus complex in South Africa, an area known for its rich ore deposits.

This is the oldest example of living microbes being found within ancient rocks so far discovered.

The team involved in the study built on its previous work to perfect a technique involving three types of imaging,

infrared spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and

fluorescent microscopy.

To confirm that the microbes were indigenous to the ancient core sample and not caused by contamination

during the retrieval and study process, research on these microbes could help us better

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