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Alien Microbes Found under Antarctic Glacier Friday, April 17, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Biology   
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An unmapped reservoir of briny liquid chemically similar to sea water, but buried under an inland Antarctic glacier, appears to support unusual microbial life in a place where cold, darkness and lack of oxygen would previously have led scientists to believe nothing could survive, according to newly published research. After sampling and analyzing the outflow from below the Taylor Glacier, an outlet glacier of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in the otherwise ice-free McMurdo Dry Valleys. (source: nsf.gov)
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| Any news on DNA level results on the tiny briny microbe that could? |
