From the mud beneath ice-covered Antarctic lake -- life

Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 16:00 in Earth & Climate

Researchers have found signs of life in mud pulled from the bottom of an ice-covered lake in Antarctica.Studying microbes in such extreme and closed-off environments could help scientists understand how life may thrive in the harshest places on Earth and potentially other planets.

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