Scientists led by Prof Peter Doran of the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a 3,000-year-old viable community of bacteria in a dark, salty and subfreezing environment beneath about 65 feet (20 meters) of ice in Lake Vida, one of Antarctica’s most isolated lakes. This scanning electron micrograph shows bacterial cells that inhabit icy brine channels in Antarctica’s Lake Vida, which lies in the Victoria Valley, one of the northernmost...
