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Microbes awaken
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27
March
2006
While testing a robotic drill on Ellesmere Island at the Eureka weather station, º«¹úÂãÎè polar biologist Lyle Whyte discovered samples of about 60 different types of microbes that had lain dormant for 20,000 years, some at -16ºC.
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