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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.
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Naica's Crystal Caves Hold Long-Dormant Life
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Remember Darwin; building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:18PM
Why does this sound like the lead in to a bad SyFy movie?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 19 2017, @03:53PM
Why does this sound like the lead in to a SyFy movie?
FTFY: I've made sure the meaning of your comment remained intact.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @01:44AM
Why does this sound like the lead in to a bad SyFy movie?
Mayhaps because you were too young to fully absorb its significance when you saw it re-run (that one time in the 80s) on broadcast TV:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 [imdb.com]
Or you're even younger than I accuse you of being, and you're conflating A&E network with the semi-nascent SyFy network--and besides cable TV is indistinguishable from cable TV:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424600/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 [imdb.com]
Anyways... "lead-in" might be prescient. Yikes, indeed.