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

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