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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 20 2017, @03:03AM
I came to drop exactly this. Bravo!