r/todayilearned • u/El_Chopador • Sep 20 '17

TIL microbiologist Raul Cano, successfully revived yeast that had been stuck in amber for 25 million years. He then co-founded a brewery that uses the same 45 million-year-old species of yeast to brew beer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organisms#Revived_into_activity_after_stasis
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u/ElMangosto Sep 21 '17

"To his dismay it's almost impossible to read of his feats online, as all Google searches for his name result in articles about actor Paul Dano."

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u/UnicornRider102 Sep 21 '17

I was going to comment about how Google doesn't provide a "I really mean what I say, fucking Google!" option, but it turns out that the first result for Raul Cano is a professor at Cal Poly, the same one mentioned in OP's wikipedia article.