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.
@SMGJohn22 күн бұрын
Would be weird if Mars did not have some kind of ancient life still sprawling under the rocks, life is a lot more common then people think, a lot more resilient and seems to occur quite easily as long as the building blocks and there.
@kenbattor635014 күн бұрын
@@SMGJohn Especially since they now say there is a lot of subsurface water on Mars.
@user-xm5cn1rs5cАй бұрын
I am happy to see that 1,329,999 other people love Anton as I do. 😊
@istealpopularnamesforlikes3340Ай бұрын
Anton and Sabine are the absolute best science channel on KZbin
@stefaniasmanio5857Ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤yessss!!!❤❤❤❤❤
@danielnavarro8569Ай бұрын
Agree!
@Sandwich13455Ай бұрын
He's a smart fella😮
@philipstanley5611Ай бұрын
Subscribers gather here!!!
@KentoLeoDragonАй бұрын
This is one video that definitely needs a follow up Anton! Fascinating stuff.
@Charles-ij1owАй бұрын
It's the new Covid
@FLPhotoCatcherАй бұрын
If they find life on Mars, it probably was blasted from earth by asteroids or comets.
@mrmg12Ай бұрын
If they find life in Earth, it's probably because it came from ancient Mars
@ExtantFrodo2Ай бұрын
@@mrmg12 if they find intelligent life on Earth it will be a first.
@Miraak1868Ай бұрын
@@mrmg12 or from Biden.
@rayflinn9580Ай бұрын
The best channel for science updates. Great presenter. I am a permanent fan. Trust him for the true facts.
@GiantcrabzАй бұрын
the wonderfulest
@chriswashere420Ай бұрын
Yeah. Every time I come across one of those click baitey videos like "Has the Big Bang been proven wrong?!", I just think until I hear it from Anton, I aint buyin' it!
@authorindisguise5173Ай бұрын
I watch only 1 in 5 or 10 of his videos probably, but I always keep him in my notifications. Best science channel to keep in your feed.
@George-rk7tsАй бұрын
Earlier this week, you shared supernova news with us Now you've topped that with paleobiology. Another wonderful video, Anton.
@mikebal7777Ай бұрын
Anton is a biologist at heart :)
@Helm-ct7ggАй бұрын
Almost like he’s not an expert on any topic and posts videos on unverified claims and papers that are always hyperbolic and generally 100% false.
@George-rk7tsАй бұрын
@@Helm-ct7gg Which specific video are you referring to?
@mikebal7777Ай бұрын
@@Helm-ct7gg or, if you do some research, you would realize that he started out as a biologist. If you have so much expertise, start your own channel.
@AmonTheWitchАй бұрын
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)
@SkaatjeАй бұрын
They should redirect a meteor to Mars. Something big enough to make a 500 meters deep big hole and 'loosen' the soil to free them.
@JustwantahoverАй бұрын
Did you start writing your comment before you saw all the video? He said exactly what you said. 😅
@greenthumb8266Ай бұрын
I catch myself doing that too, premonition in real time.
@AmonTheWitchАй бұрын
@@Justwantahover that's why i edited it 😭
@floridaman4073Ай бұрын
Bet all my money on basic life, being still on mars. We wonder if we are alone in the universe, we likely not alone on our solar system.
@Auroral_AnomalyАй бұрын
Life finds a way.
@veramae4098Ай бұрын
Oh, shut up. Get another quote.
@timothytrudelle9245Ай бұрын
@veramae4098 life is fundamental to reality. It's been there since the begining.
@Auroral_AnomalyАй бұрын
@@veramae4098 If you don’t like it, why reply, I haven’t done anything to you, you sound hurt.
@mistert800Ай бұрын
@@veramae4098 Life, uh, finds a way
@Henchman314Ай бұрын
I came here for this quote. I was not disappointed 😊
@the80hdgamingАй бұрын
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...
@whatdamathАй бұрын
Let's hope they do!
@shanerooney7288Ай бұрын
* *Drills into rock* * * *Maple syrup comes out* *
@neverlistentomeАй бұрын
A 3.5 billion year old Tim Hortons waits to be discovered...
@DC9VАй бұрын
@@shanerooney7288 Maple sirup can only be extracted at temperatures around 0°C, though. 😬
@seanhewitt603Ай бұрын
I'm from the northwest territories, and it's beautiful land. Great Slave Lake was the swimming pool I grew up with. There was an ancient hole about twenty five feet or so in diameter, don't know how deep tho...😃
@user-kr9cb3np8pАй бұрын
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...
@tonydagostino6158Ай бұрын
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.
@greenthumb8266Ай бұрын
Yes but are bacteria sentient?
@tonydagostino6158Ай бұрын
@@greenthumb8266 Who said anything about sentience? That'd make them unique bacteria, that's for sure
@greenthumb8266Ай бұрын
@@tonydagostino6158 but you just described them as stashing water, nutrients …… aren’t these qualities of awareness?
@tonydagostino6158Ай бұрын
@@greenthumb8266 No, living organisms do that all the time, taking advantage of their environment doesn't make the sentient
@greenthumb8266Ай бұрын
@@tonydagostino6158 whoa , we’re on two different pages here, I was positing an open ending thought, basically, starting a conversation about something not yet known. But you seem to have all the answers already. You have a materialist worldview, and the hubris that goes along with it. Have a good day.
@Curry-tan-Ай бұрын
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.
@_Thoughtful_Aquarius_Ай бұрын
Yeah.... I'm also very skeptical about this. Seems impossible to me. Looking forward to updates from more research.
@simontmnАй бұрын
Yes, I can't see any reason to think these bacteria must have been evolving independently for billions of years.
@gregsonwoodsАй бұрын
@@_Thoughtful_Aquarius_ I agree, I guess the truth will be in the genetic drift.
@fredherzogfanАй бұрын
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
@David-we3sbАй бұрын
or just maybe those rocks aren't that old? just a thought
@REDINKmysteriesАй бұрын
psuedo science continues to astound
@David-we3sbАй бұрын
@@REDINKmysteries exactly. Clear evidence of life, yet they will never question their theories of dating rocks.
@JamesKennedy-zs8goАй бұрын
The process of dating the rocks is settled science. Read a bit please
@DMIwriterАй бұрын
@@JamesKennedy-zs8go Lot of things used to be settled science
@ZBB0001Ай бұрын
"Bacteria billions and billions of years old!" Anton has the ghost of Sagan in him.
@Cr8TronАй бұрын
And his voice always slightly reminds me of Sagan!
@RennrogueАй бұрын
@@Cr8Tron I hear that too. It might be the cadence of the speech.
@valinorean4816Ай бұрын
Where do those bacteria get their energy flow from? You can have life in a sealed jar indefinitely if it is exposed to sunlight, but what's preventing the swift entropic heat death in this case??
@stickplayer2Ай бұрын
Well... if so, then 2 billion years of evolution has occurred on whatever life was there when the clay was formed. It's not that any individual bacterium in the sample is 2 billion years old. And 2 billion years is a lot of time for evolution to work, so this might not really resemble life from 2 billion years ago so much as their deep-time descendants.
@Pyxis10Ай бұрын
@@valinorean4816Extremophiles. Plenty of life doesn't use sunlight.
@Nik-pv8bxАй бұрын
Bravo Anton! After Covid experience... Show people that have forgotten what a scientist looks like.
@prying_mindsАй бұрын
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.
@alicemeraviglia8863Ай бұрын
It is not clear yet. Expecting bacteria to be alive after 2BY is a lot, but so was 250,000 years just a few years ago. We'll have to wait and see what this case was. I assume these are just later generations of an original population.
@zatsun2733Ай бұрын
Hidden deep in the ground UV radiation might be ridiculous so i think mutations are extremely rare, while they are one of the motor of evolution
@londonspade589625 күн бұрын
@@zatsun2733 How do you explain life in caves / hydrothermal vents. Our planet itself releases radiation too
@Lou.BАй бұрын
I don't learn about work like this anywhere else EXCEPT on YOUR channel, Anton! THIS one is indeed, mind blowing!!! THANK YOU!
@CaseyW491Ай бұрын
Love your content Anton! Every time. You're a wonderful science communicator and manage to find fascinating studies for every video.
@greenthumb8266Ай бұрын
I can’t imagine the hours he must put in. To our good fortune.
@gregj4857Ай бұрын
Definitely do a follow-up. Thanks for another great science lesson
@oui2611Ай бұрын
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
@msmith323Ай бұрын
The phraae 'crazy to the amount of recognition' doesn't make any sense
@jimcurtis9052Ай бұрын
Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. ✌️😁
@ericpierce3660Ай бұрын
Anton bringing knowledge to the world again.
@mscirАй бұрын
Thanks for another great class.
@VoltastikАй бұрын
Thanks Anton, watching Anton is scientifically proven to improve your day ( even if it's not been great ) and it definitely improves your mind. You even inspired me to make my own YT channel 💛!
@Chill_Mode_JDАй бұрын
Please consult your physician before Anton as it may cause side effects like feelings of wonderfulness 💚!
@nathanatrampАй бұрын
Won't improve your day if you want evidence of aliens.
@keithleraccАй бұрын
The best part is that, despite being extraterrestrial life, these possible organisms could hold the secrets to early evolutionary life here on Earth.
@mrcoffee70Ай бұрын
Wasn't this the way the movie the "Thing" started?
@peppermintgal4302Ай бұрын
Lol I think the Thing was from space, it came down in a spaceship. There is a weird movie where bacteria deep inside the earth form weird monsters, though... I can't recall the name.
@rgarlinycАй бұрын
Truly amazing - thanks for bringing this to our attention Anton, and I look forward to all your updates as things progress!
@noterrormanagementАй бұрын
Very exciting, please talk more about paleobiology and abiogenesis!
@bgsmember3650Ай бұрын
This discovery isn't actually abiogenesis, but it does lend lots of credence to the possibilities of Panspermia.
@David-we3sbАй бұрын
abiogenesis is an unproven fantasy of atheists.
@JJ3343816 күн бұрын
anton you are the best scientist on the internet - so educational and you can explain the most complicated ideas in an understandable manner. You are wonderful! Wow this is a mind blower!
@tonyrome5584Ай бұрын
Anton, this finding of living bacteria in deep igneous rocks may also explain why we geologists have found so much petroleum where we never expected to find it. If so then some oil may not technically be a fossil fuel, since its production might be an on going, living, process. Just maybe??!!
@personzorzАй бұрын
Except you only find petroleum deposits where impermiable layers specifically tent over and trap leakage from sedimenrary rock bearing ancient biomass
@PhapchampАй бұрын
The problem being is the source that ends up getting turned into fossil fuel. Bacteria there is just a vehicle for the process.
@AvendesoraАй бұрын
something being a "fossil fuel" doesn't mean it's not being created anymore. The process is just so slow that our consumption outpaces it many many many times over.
@aygwmАй бұрын
Careful where you go with this topic. Oil companies won’t like it
@personzorzАй бұрын
@@aygwm Are you kidding, oil companies would love if there was more to pump. but there isn't.
@CITADEL5Ай бұрын
Anton, Thank you for directly getting to the point you want to make. Very refreshing. You have gained a subscriber.
@testboga5991Ай бұрын
It should be easy to exclude contamination from genetic analysis once they release the data. Surprising they haven't done that yet.
@neo-filthyfrank1347Ай бұрын
yes when have big scientific discoveries EVER turned out to be just hype?
@AvendesoraАй бұрын
Super curious what you think the turnaround time "should" be for something like this, especially when the teams who did the discovering were busy... doing the discovering. Their mission was to get the samples in the first place and find the bacteria, sequencing and data analysis are next steps.
@emmanuels7723Ай бұрын
@@Avendesoranot like HT sequencing and assembly exist for a decade, especially for procaryotes. Even with low concentration samples. Pretty sure even as a service.
@AvendesoraАй бұрын
@@emmanuels7723 Sequencing takes weeks, analyzing the resulting data and correlating it with everything you already know to determine if your hypothesis about their age is correct takes SLIGHTLY longer. I promise. They actually do more than just glance at the results and go "eureka!".
@just_another_nerdАй бұрын
🤯 Fascinating! Especially the implications for finding life on other celestial bodies🎉 So looking forward for the follow-up
@Elias_AvrahamАй бұрын
Almost as ancient as my mother-in-law.
@leslieturcotte1008Ай бұрын
🤣😂🤣
@DoreenBellDotanАй бұрын
You are my go-to for all kinds of science factoids. I learn a lot from you, Anton.
@KWyDimpleАй бұрын
So applying that process to the recently retrieved asteroid sample would be worthy of further anlysis. Considering they indicated clays were present in the samples.
@alicemeraviglia8863Ай бұрын
If I was Mr. Suzuki I'd be going after that tonight!
@nickrider5220Ай бұрын
The implications are enormous for planets and moons that once had hospitable conditions, great information Anton !
@SkaatjeАй бұрын
So is the bacteria or the rock 2 billion years old? There seems to be a discrepency between the thumbnail and the title. 😅 I assume the bacteria are on a lot of new generations by now?
@thearpox7873Ай бұрын
"The bacteria lay undisturbed for two billion years." There. Happy?
@mrdeanvincentАй бұрын
The bacterial _colony_ is 2 billion years old, encapsulated in 2 billion year old rock. An individual bacterium within the colony is not 2 billion years old.
@udishomer5852Ай бұрын
These bacteria were separated from the rest of the world for hundreds of millions of years, yet somehow found a way to survive in these isolated environment. Think of it as an alien environment here on Earth.
@bdegrandАй бұрын
I hope somebody is seeing to it that none of these bacteria get loose... Who knows what these tough little dudes could do to our current life forms ... 😮
@peppermintgal4302Ай бұрын
They're probably optimized for extreme conditions, meaning they won't thrive in our "normal" environment. Though yeah, there's no reason not to take precautions!
@user-lb8bg6kj9mАй бұрын
The Thing 🕷️
@MephitisUKАй бұрын
I for one will welcome our new 'old' bacterial overlords...
@mortenrl1946Ай бұрын
My money is on our immune system for this one. These little guys have been sitting in some cozy clay forever without being bothered, while we've been exposed to almost everything imaginable on the planet.
@rachmondhoward2125Ай бұрын
Mind blowing! It would be interesting to get more information about the genetics and morphology of these bacteria. Our oldest bacteria belongs to Archeobateria family so let's see if these bacteria are part of this group or completely different! Great presentation on another ground-breaking scientific discovery!
@XenMaximalistАй бұрын
I think Mars has ancient subterranean gigantic worms. That is the cause of the mysterious Marsquakes. 😊
@ResinRat2Ай бұрын
Wonder what they eat?
@oberonpanopticonАй бұрын
@@ResinRat2I dunno, ask frank herbert
@KeithRingoАй бұрын
What about instead of giant ones it's billions of tiny ones
@udishomer5852Ай бұрын
Dune anyone?
@Rishi123456789Ай бұрын
Strange lifeforms found inside 2-billion-year-old rocks: We're 2 billion years old, beat that! Brahma: That's cute. I'm 155 trillion years old.
@littlebirdie212 күн бұрын
Excellant report!! Thx! Good to hear that you’ll keep up with this researcher & inform us of any new developments by him. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@scottgardenerАй бұрын
This has got to be one of the most under-appreciated discoveries in our lifetime. If we could verify it, maybe with a few more carefully collected samples, t would, how shall I say it, rock our notions of biology. Tardigrades? Amateurs… These guys survived snowball Earths, the end Permian, and more. They slept through the impact event at the end of the Cretaceous. We young kids with our oxygen and multicellular life…
@David-we3sbАй бұрын
or maybe the rocks aren't that old? just a thought
@linecraftman3907Ай бұрын
@@David-we3sbor the got into rocks vis cracks
@Mr._RandomАй бұрын
Anton is the best 👍
@stephenwatts7734Ай бұрын
This is another amazing video. You must do a follow up on what the DNA shows.
@baraskparas9559Ай бұрын
Since the bacteria were located in clay filled cracks in the rock the bacteria can be much more recent than the age of the rock itself. A new book published by Austin Macauley Publishers titled From Chemistry to Life on Earth outlines abiogenesis in great detail with a solution to the evolution of the genetic code and the ribosome as well as the cell in general using 290 references, 50 illustrations and several information tables with a proposed molecular natural selection formula with a worked example for ATP.
@user-lb8bg6kj9mАй бұрын
Maybe water 💦 trickling from the surface carried the bacteria down below 👇 and does so from time to time. So perhaps it's not as old as believed.
@baraskparas9559Ай бұрын
@@user-lb8bg6kj9m Agreed. Need to do a genomic analysis if they are alive, especially after growing them in petri dishes.
@allwheeldriveАй бұрын
Thank you, Anton. Discoveries like this are massively perspective-changing! And it sure seems we're seeing more and more like this. I hope this is a clear indicator to the scientific community that we REALLY don't know much at all and that being open for fundamental shifts in understanding should be the norm. We'll never know everything about the real drivers of existence, but we can at least be more humble about our place in the universe.
@razercp9322Ай бұрын
I look forward to your every upload! ❤❤
@mac11380Ай бұрын
Thats what she said....lol
@razercp9322Ай бұрын
@@mac11380 what’s the pun
@dalelerette206Ай бұрын
Anton's videos are always informative and accurate. There is no guile in him, which is very blessed. You are truly a wonderful person Anton. I hope someday you meet Brother Guy Consolmagno.
@gianpaulgraziosi6171Ай бұрын
8:35 never gets old
@psychiatry-is-eugenics9 күн бұрын
8:34 that smile is almost as fake as mine .
@JohnSaylock-ec4cdАй бұрын
Best scientific channel.... No B,S. And to the point.
@krishp1104Ай бұрын
please dont be contamination please dont be contamination please dont be contamination please dont be contamination
@simonnash9541Ай бұрын
Anton ive been watching you for six years fantastic work mate, I have learnt so many new idea of science Simon Nash 78 y South Australia
@thingsweshouldknoАй бұрын
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me🤣
@John-wm6fgАй бұрын
My Daddy Always Screamed That at Me !!!
@shmacampАй бұрын
Anton’s videos are my ASMR.
@osmosisjones4912Ай бұрын
The natural biosphere could be seen as type civilization
@neo-filthyfrank1347Ай бұрын
no it couldn't
@evolutionarydeadend6812Ай бұрын
I mean, it could be. It probably shouldn't, but it could be. Lol
@katherandefyАй бұрын
Gosh wow. Looking forward to hearing more on this discovery.
@nathanmiller3687Ай бұрын
Perhaps life doesn't "develop". Panspermia still seems like a very valid theory
@neo-filthyfrank1347Ай бұрын
I think the formation of life was basically an absolute freak event much, much rarer than people think, thus explaining the fermi paradox. I don't think there's alien life anywhere close enough for us to observe.
@personzorzАй бұрын
Has to happen somewhere and I tend to think people wildly overestimate how hard it is is to get going
@neo-filthyfrank1347Ай бұрын
@@personzorz People wildly underestimate how hard it is to get going
@gabriellapierre3512Ай бұрын
Only wanted to say thanks Anton. It's been a while and still never have had a bad video. Your constant! Good. Thanks
@SureshkumarShaihАй бұрын
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@IbrahimFilipeАй бұрын
Hello!! how do you make such monthly, I’m a born Christian and sometimes I feel so down of myself 😭 because of low finance but I still believe God
@KingsleyFoskaАй бұрын
Thanks to my co-worker (Carson ) who suggested Ms Susan Jane Christy
@AndreHsiehАй бұрын
After I raised up to 525k trading with her I bought a new House and a car here in the states🇺🇸🇺🇸 also paid for my son's surgery….Glory to God, shalom.
@DegeorgeGoswamiАй бұрын
She's a licensed broker here in the states🇺🇸 and finance advisor.
@FarnellCannadayАй бұрын
Can I also do it??? My life is facing lots of challenges lately
@yousaidthusly461Ай бұрын
This is the equivalent of finding alien life! Bravo
@Sci-Fi_Quizshow4 күн бұрын
Smashing reporting discussion and explanation. Keept up the exccelent work on this amazing channel!
@4g4m3n0nАй бұрын
Reminds me of a line from Lovecraft... “That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.”
@mercurywoodroseАй бұрын
Read a great book once:Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith FRSE (24 November 1931 - 26 August 2016) was an organic chemist and molecular biologist at the University of Glasgow.[1] He studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he gained a Ph.D. in Chemistry (1957).[2] He was most famous for his controversial 1985 book Seven Clues to the Origin of Life.
@murraymacd9 күн бұрын
Hey Anton. Love your videos. In this one there’s a slight correction. You say the place the scientists went was bushveld in South Africa. That’s like saying they went to forest in Germany. It’s just a type of terrain. What you meant to say is the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC).
@Jeffrey-ed8szАй бұрын
Anton passes great info to homebodies like me. ❤ Anton's channel.
@mirfalltnix1736Ай бұрын
Thank you for the nice video Anton !
@tearsblacksphinxАй бұрын
Hey, Anton, great topic. Thank you very much for this post. What software do you use to change your background for the podcast? I wanna try. I'm using this myself.
@marknovak6498Ай бұрын
Volcanic rocks sustain life, meaning life can start and be ready to develop further when conditions allow for it. That is good news for finding extraterrestrial life.
@FreddisredАй бұрын
Hopefully we can develop some sort of plastic waste that survives those temperatures, rendering the planet a useless deathball for eons.
@macgyversheАй бұрын
Immortal life forms More, please and thank you
@princequestly2218Ай бұрын
This study sounds promising, and extremely interesting. Very cool!!! 😎
@AxionSmurfАй бұрын
10 billion bacteria per cm3 in the human gut gives you some perspective how weak the weaker probiotics are (e.g. 1 billion)
@wholebodysneezeАй бұрын
Hi Anton, new subscriber here. I really like your choice of topics and style of presentation. I am looking forward to skimming through your back catalog. Not sure if you've found it already, but I would recommend Michael Levin's work on bioelectricity. He's doing some mind-blowing stuff that I think you and your audience might get a kick out of.
@DrJoy-cw7ltАй бұрын
This fascinates me. So cool.
@scoobysnax9787Ай бұрын
I have a friend who is a Professor in Microfossils. He also studied under Dr Suzuki. Fantastic news about his latest research. He is also a genius regarding the evolution of microfossils too.
@michubern1444Ай бұрын
Thats just amazing. So much history we know nothing about :)
@Clint_Moto34Ай бұрын
Exciting times! Thank you for covering ❤
@nonpareilstoryteller5920Ай бұрын
Phantasmagorical !
@seattlegrrlieАй бұрын
Life is everywhere.
@carmonk9243Ай бұрын
Oooooo keep us updated. This is cool shtuff. 😊
@chesterhackenbushАй бұрын
One of the most amazing videos ever. Real science.
@samshuijzenАй бұрын
Now I know why I felt guilty about my rockhounding past, I was destroying communities all along. Well, I kinda learnt my lesson but those rocks, millions of years old .. have started to crumble because I took them out of their habitat. I figured they'd be run over by bulldozers anyway, which may have been better than my cleaning them.
@Julian_Wang-paiАй бұрын
What an astonishing story! Very old rocks but how old are those organisms really? Consider the heat and pressure they must have experienced over a period of time up toward 2000 million years..!
@PitchWheelАй бұрын
As an Italian in always proud of seeing Italy in the background, one of the most beautiful places of the world, even from space!
@ypey1Ай бұрын
Even from space, lol😂
@shaneconnor86Ай бұрын
this is a groundbreaking discovery Anton, thanks
@nitroxylictvАй бұрын
This is freaking insane, probably one of the most important studies of the century!
@mariuquidielloАй бұрын
Amazing NATURE 🙏🏻🙏🏻💕💕💕
@androociferАй бұрын
I just love your educational channel. I don't think I miss very many of your videos. This is truly amazing. Nature is so very amazing!
@animusveritatisАй бұрын
Pure gold everytime.
@petracastro6021Ай бұрын
Very interesting, thank you!
@ricoma6037Ай бұрын
Get well soon!
@barbaralopez265Ай бұрын
very cool - I will share with Friends
@timl.b.2095Ай бұрын
I don't know why you say he "didn't expect to find" and was "surprised" to find life there. That is exactly what he was looking for.
@global_nomad.Ай бұрын
I hope Anton will still be presenting fascinating research in 2billion years......
@michaelbiggs7129Ай бұрын
Fascinating discovery..i hope i see any follow up on this..
@gordonwallin2368Ай бұрын
Thanks, Anton. Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
@gregsutton2400Ай бұрын
Thanks Anton, that is amazing. Its like if the creatures in the Burgess shale started moving.
@steveg1961Ай бұрын
They don't have to have been isolated for two billion years. Even if the researchers are taking extreme care to prevent contamination by their research procedures of acquiring the samples in the first place, that doesn't imply that has never been any environmental contamination over two billion years.
@robwood6759Ай бұрын
I would be very interested to see similar tests done on meteorite fragments, and perhaps even material returned from asteroids. Fascinating report.
@patrickbrady6697Ай бұрын
When building a house basement you learn that for every few feet below the water line, the hydrostatic pressure against the wall increases 100 pounds per square foot per unit distance....that is the pressure increases ALOT. Changes in pressure in geological terms are caused by everything, up to the position of the moon . Water flows in and out of tiny spaces even at great deepths because of this pressure.Bacteria go along for the ride. Unlikely that these bacteria are as old as the researcher wishes. This is why physics and geology should be known by any biologist.
@agentxyzАй бұрын
thank you--you allow me to forward a lot of stuff to my sister, brother, etc.