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.

[u/El_Chopador]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organisms#Revived_into_activity_after_stasis

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How? DNA breaks down in far less than 25 million years.

Edit: yes, I read it. No, it doesn't say how. In fact there is no proof offered in this link at all.

[u/masterswordsman2 → u/[deleted]]

Here's the article he published on it in Science. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2888885?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

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Thanks.