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Add Water, Life Stirs

by Pat Coate | August 12, 2005

Boulder, CO - Microbes freeze-dried in Antarctica for two decades sprang to life when scientists added water, revealing yet another extreme ecosystem that shows life's incredible resiliency.

"This was something we did not anticipate," McKnight said.

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