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3000-year-old Microbes

Posted by michael on from the stuff-you-found-at-the-back-of-your-refrigerator dept.

marga writes "Science Daily is running a story about a group of researchers the have been drilling into the Antarctic ice and discovered 3000-year-old microbes that could come back to life if put in contact with liquid water. And not only that, they claim that they have uncovered a whole new ecological system lying beneath the Lake Vida."

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  1. In other news... by derinax · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~vampire/thing/thin g.htm

    and

    http://www.fangoria.com/news_article.php?id=368