Unusual Antarctic microbes live life on a previously unsuspected edge

Friday, April 17, 2009 - 08:28 in Biology & Nature

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...

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