This bad boy came from the oldest genetic material ever found. it belonged to a beloved salt-loving bacteria whose ancestors may have been some of the first life forms on Earth.

A team of researchers led by Jong Soo Park of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, found six segments of identical DNA that have never been seen before by science. Their work appears in the December issue of the journal Geobiology.

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