Rachel Sussman

author, 'The Oldest Living Things in the World'

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The oldest living thing in the world is a six-hundred-thousand-year-old bacterium, discovered in the permafrost of Siberia.

Oldest Living Things

The oldest living thing in the world is a six-hundred-thousand-year-old bacterium, discovered in the permafrost of Siberia.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

The oldest living thing in the world is a 600,000 year-old bacterium, discovered in the permafrost of Siberia.

Oldest Living Things

The oldest living thing in the world is a 600,000 year-old bacterium, discovered in the permafrost of Siberia.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

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