A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Canada, working with a colleague from the U.S., has found evidence of long-lived sub-seafloor bacteria seeping up into the ocean and traveling long distances via currents. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes their genetic study of bacteria samples collected from the seafloor.
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Source: Phys.org