120,000 Year Old Bacteria Discovered Two Miles Under Glacier

Sounding suspiciously like an episode of the X-Files, Penn State scientists announced the discovery of a 120,000-year-old microscopic bacteria that live two miles under the ice of a Greenland glacier. The bacterian are so tiny that it is able to pass through microbiological filters.
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.

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