Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Microbes in 8 million year old ice from Beacon Valley

A team of molecular biologists and geologists claim they have found 8 million year old microbes embedded in buried glacier ice they collected in Beacon Valley, Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Bidle and others pulished their finding in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
For more info see news article here ...
or the full open access article here...

Image: Bidle et al., PNAS.

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