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PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 7:46 am


Ancient microbes have been revived in a lab, the oldest of them being 8 million years old!

Therefore, if microbial life existed on Mars in the past, then it might still be frozen there, and we could revive it if we find it! Amazing, isn't it?

Read more: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2007/08/ancient-antarct.html
PostPosted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:17 pm


Some more ancient microbes revived, this time from Greenland:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/06/ultramicrobacterium-discovered-under-greenland-glacier-suitable-for-life-on-exo-planets.html

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