A survivor in Greenland: A novel bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old ice

05 June 2008 » architecture, extremophiles, synergetics

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. [See also GISP2 Drill Dome]

A survivor in Greenland: A novel bacterial species is found trapped in 120,000-year-old ice