From today’s Anomalist:

‘Alien’ Lifeform Wakened from 120K Year Arctic Slumber. The Register. Writer Lewis Page sounds an alarm reminiscent of some classic science-fiction literature in coverage of the recent discovery of a dormant microbe, dubbed Herminiimonas glaciei, that is believed to have slumbered for 120 millennia beneath the Arctic ice pack. The scientists have revived the bacterium, assuring us it’s harmless, but sounding a note of caution concerning its small size: “It can pass through…the filter pore size commonly used in sterilization of fluids in laboratories and hospitals.” And it might be capable of life in such hostile environments as that of Mars.

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