Monday, June 15, 2009

It's alive...

Rip Van Winkle microbe wakes up after 120,000 years.

A tough little bacteria, Herminiimonas glaciei, is alive and vigorous after being discovered about 3 km deep in a Greenland glacier where food and oxygen are scarce.

Why not on Mars?
Posted by J.P. Buchanan at 3:20 PM
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