A team of Penn State scientists has discovered a new ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. The microorganism's ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for studying how life, in general, can survive in a variety of extreme environments on Earth and possibly elsewhere in the solar system.

http://live.psu.edu/story/31052

Wow, a living time capsule!

Helps to also support the theory that some life could come here on a frozen icerock from space somewhere.

Wait.. I thought the earth was only 6,000 years old?

Sorry..couldnt resist.

bacteria,the seeds of life,the most prevelant and sucessful life form.

Why didn't I think of that.

This is great news and defies all that shit I was taught last year in GCSE Physics.

I remember having a few lessons on whether life could exist elsewhere in the universe and we were taught that for life to exist they had to have conditions very similar to ours which is absolute bullshit.

All we know is life here. Other life forms might use Hydrogen gas to breathe or whatever, unlikely but then again who knows.