'Resurrection bug' revived after 120,000 years


	'Resurrection bug' revived after 120,000 years

chestnut501

6-15-2009 12:11 AM

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Loveland-Curtze speculates that similar microbes may have evolved in the ice on other planets and moons, such as the ice at the poles of Mars and the ice-covered ocean on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons.

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6-16-2009 8:02 PM

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