Scientists Discover Microbes That Have Remained Essentially Unchanged For 2 Billion Years

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UCLA. A section of the 1.8-billion-year-old fossil bearing rock.

A team of scientists has discovered a remarkable type of deep-sea bacterium that appears to have remained essentially unchanged for over 2 billion years. To put that into perspective, that’s almost half the age of our planet. Interestingly, rather than contradicting Darwin’s theory of evolution, this example of extreme stasis actually lends support to Darwinian evolution.