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...Harvard lab recently discovered single-celled microbes living in isolation for millions of years beneath an Antarctic glacier once believed inhospitable to all life...
...findings below the Taylor Glacier contradicts the long-held belief that subglacial environments, which lack light, oxygen, or food, cannot support life...
...planetary sciences, the team based the research on samples collected from Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. This region is considered to be one of the world’s most extreme deserts and contains an iron-rich subglacial outflow, Blood Falls, which trickles from the Taylor Glacier...
Pearson said Mikucki would camp out by the falls for weeks at a time for a number of years, waiting for the sporadic melting events during the summer when it would be just warm enough for the glacier to melt and for brine to flow...
Within this brine, the research team discovered roughly a dozen species of prokaryotic microbes about the size of bacteria buried deep beneath the glacier...