A Survivor in Greenland: A Novel Bacterial Species is Found Trapped in 120,000-Year-Old Ice
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 10:56
in Earth & Climate
A team of Penn State scientists has discovered a new ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. The microorganism's ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen, and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for studying how life, in general, can survive in a variety of extreme environments on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the solar system.
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