Organism Revived After Trapped in Greenland Ice for 120,000 Years
source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17305-resurrection-bug-revived-after-120000-years.html
A tiny bacterium has been coaxed back to life after spending 120,000 years buried three kilometres deep in the Greenland ice sheet.
Researchers who found it say it could resemble microbes that may have evolved in ice on other planets.
Officially named Herminiimonas glaciei, the bug consists of rods just 0.9 micrometres long and 0.4 micrometres in diameter, about 10 to 50 times smaller than the well-known bacterium, Escherichia coli.
Researchers who found it say it could resemble microbes that may have evolved in ice on other planets.
Officially named Herminiimonas glaciei, the bug consists of rods just 0.9 micrometres long and 0.4 micrometres in diameter, about 10 to 50 times smaller than the well-known bacterium, Escherichia coli.
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