>Were found in dirt collected on a whim during a hike I internally thought about dirt as soon as I read the headline. There is so much biodiversity in soil tha

>Were found in dirt collected on a whim during a hike I internally thought about dirt as soon as I read the headline. There is so much biodiversity in soil that is still unknown but goes unobserved due to the anaerobic nature of the microbes. I met a grad student who was randomly sequencing whatever nucleotides he could find in dirt and was finding new sequences all over the place.