Like Smilla's Sense of Snow, but in Spanish:
It is a remarkable discovery in an amazing place.
The organisms were likely to have been encased in the striking shafts of gypsum at least 10,000 years ago, and possibly up to 50,000 years ago.
It is another demonstration of the ability of life to adapt and cope in the most hostile of environments.
"Other people have made longer-term claims for the antiquity of organisms that were still alive, but in this case these organisms are all very extraordinary - they are not very closely related to anything in the known genetic databases," said Dr Penelope Boston.
(Score: 1) by moondoctor on Sunday February 19 2017, @07:35AM
Serious, have these people never seen a movie from the 80s?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday February 19 2017, @12:58PM
The Thing was an alien organism, though. Smilla's Sense of Snow was a long dormant terrestrial parasite. On the other hand the Naica caves are incredibly hot and acidic, so closer to an aliien environment than Earth. But Smilla had a lot of Inuit, which sounds like Klingon. Meh, could go either way.
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