Strange Life Forms That Appeared Alive Found Inside 2 Billion Year Old Rocks

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
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#life #earth #science

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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[HeroinYoda]

Crazy how this discovery sent us from "Mars may have had life at some point" to "Mars probably still has life". I'm excited for the future.

[kento]

This is one video that definitely needs a follow up Anton! Fascinating stuff.

[rayflinn]

The best channel for science updates. Great presenter. I am a permanent fan. Trust him for the true facts.

[xmcnrsc]

I am happy to see that 1, 329, 999 other people love Anton as I do. 😊

[George-rkts]

Earlier this week, you shared supernova news with us

Now you've topped that with paleobiology.

Another wonderful video, Anton.

[AmonTheWitch]

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)

[krcbnpp]

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...

[thehdgaming]

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...

[ZBB]

"Bacteria billions and billions of years old!" Anton has the ghost of Sagan in him.

[tonydagostino]

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.

[CaseyW]

Love your content Anton! Every time. You're a wonderful science communicator and manage to find fascinating studies for every video.

[Curry-tan-]

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.

[jimcurtis]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. ✌️😁

[Lou.B]

I don't learn about work like this anywhere else EXCEPT on YOUR channel, Anton! THIS one is indeed, mind blowing!!!
THANK YOU!

[fredherzogfan]

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

[ericpierce]

Anton bringing knowledge to the world again.

[oui]

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

[gregj]

Definitely do a follow-up. Thanks for another great science lesson

[noterrormanagement]

Very exciting, please talk more about paleobiology and abiogenesis!

[prying_minds]

7:57 “ I mean once again this is a 2 billion year old bacteria still alive still kicking still producing stuff”. But presumably not the same as bacteria 2 billion years ago. While there were likely far less competitive pressures, there still must have been some genetic changes through the generations that spanned that timeframe, right? Unless they were dormant most of the time.