Eight-Million-Year-Old Bug Is Alive And Growing

An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers. Taken from ice found between 3 and 5 metres beneath the surface of a glacier in the Beacon and Mullins valleys of Antarctica, the bacterium is not likely to cause human disease. Link

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[ben]

*plague hits, millions dead*

[RAzOR]

It's just a matter of time. We're at Eleven Monkeys right now.