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To: lizma
This is all I found.

Thirty Million-Year Sleep: Germ Is Declared Alive!

There were much older spores waiting to be revived. On May 19, 1995, The New York Times carried a front-page story about them (4). Biologists Raul Cano and Monica Borucki had extracted bacterial spores from bees preserved in amber in Costa Rica. Amber is tree-sap that hardens and persists as a fossil.
This amber had entrapped some bees and then hardened between 25 and 40 million years ago.
Bacteria living in the bees' digestive tracts had recognized a problem and turned themselves into spores. When placed in a suitable culture, the spores came right back to life.

As a control, the two biologists also attempted to culture from the same amber a number of samples that contained no bee parts. These cultures were negative, adding credibility to the experiment. This finding was originally reported in the journal Science (5) to general acceptance.

16 posted on 03/11/2004 5:22:57 PM PST by blam
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To: blam
Bacteria living in the bees' digestive tracts had recognized a problem and turned themselves into spores. When placed in a suitable culture, the spores came right back to life.

Is it just me but I'm hard pressed to think spores millions of years old come back to life? It's not thinking these guys are liars but the fact this occurrence is so amazing.

If it's true we haven't begin to touch the wonders and complexities of life. It's not so much how but why?

44 posted on 03/11/2004 7:52:28 PM PST by lizma
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