New bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old ice
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 - 16:49
in Biology & Nature
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...
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