Ultrasmall microbes trapped in glacial ice for 120,000 years have been coaxed back to life, a new study says. The feat adds to evidence that long-dormant alien life on other, frozen worlds could be resurrected. Called Herminiimonas glaciei, the purplish-brown bacteria were discovered beneath nearly two miles of Greenland ice. Researchers incubated the ancient sample in increasingly warmer water for nearly a year before the bacteria colonies grew on a petri dish. (source: news.nationalgeographic.com)
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