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8-Million-Year-Old Bug Alive and Growing

Queen Elizabeth’s longevity secret may have been uncovered
8-million-year-old bug

An 8-million-year-old bacteria was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth and is now growing in a laboratory, the News Scientist reports.

Like Queen Elizabeth, researchers extracted the old bug from its frigidly cold glacier, resuscitated it, and are now watching it grow in a petri dish.

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