Ancient Glacier Creatures Brought Back To Life (8-Million-Years-Old)

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-6-2007 | Roger Highfield

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[pabianice]

Swell.

[martin_fierro]

Decided-Lack-Of-Silly-Gfx PING

[pogo101]

[Political Junkie Too]

The feat of revival was managed with as yet unidentified single-celled microbes and should pose no health issues, say the scientists.

-PJ

[DoughtyOne]

I don’t think there’s much danger here, but that quote would be a gem if a problem did arise.

Intersting article... thanks.

[blam]

"I don’t think there’s much danger here, but that quote would be a gem if a problem did arise."

Nah. Old stuff is seaping out from somewhere every day.

[Riley]

“Jurassic Petri Dish”- coming soon to a theater near you.

[Inyo-Mono]

My Lord! 8 million years old! Just think what ancient microbes could tell us (if they could talk). Imagine how times they have witnessed global warming, ice ages, and more global warming, followed by more ice ages!

[DoughtyOne]

Oh lay off the NY Times will ya... =;-)>

[tbw2]

The next flu outbreak = neandertal flu?

[DoughtyOne]

Pretty good, a Neanderthal flu epiemic of Mammoth proportions...

[catpuppy]

The feat of revival was managed with as yet unidentified single-celled microbes

Contrary to initial reports, these were not the leading candidates for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination.

[muawiyah]

"In this way, the work limits the idea of panspermia, that life spread through the cosmos as seeds of genetic material moved about.

Actually, this work doesn't put a limit to panspermia, just the use of comets.

Earth has microbes that live deep in rock far from the reach of any cosmic rays.

Carbonaceous chondrites, or nickel-iron meteors could easily carry DNA into the void for eons upon eons.

[blam]

"Earth has microbes that live deep in rock far from the reach of any cosmic rays."

I agree...that was my first thought too. They do get here from space, IMO.

[Clara Lou]

We’re all going to die from ancient organisms in melting glaciers!

[taxesareforever]

Creatures that once lived eight million years ago have been successfully thawed from the ice of an Antarctic glacier

And we have Helen Thomas to prove it.

[mysterio]

Amazing. I think I read once of ancient microorganisms found in a salt crystal that approached several million years old. If I recall, they were successfully cultured in a lab setting.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam and MartinF. Oh, no, another consequence of human-induced climate change, whatever will we do. ;')

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