Researchers Are Reanimating 40,000 Year old Microbes

 Photo by Tristan Caro At the US Army Corps of Engineers’ research facility in central Alaska, a unique tunnel descends underground. Measuring over 350 feet deep, mammoth bones jut out from its surrounding walls. However, a team of researchers didn’t go to the remote site for ancient fossils. They were hunting for something much smaller and smellier. “The first thing you notice when you walk in there is that it smells really bad. It smells like a musty basement that’s been left […]

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Arcella sp. ambling across a microscope slide using its pseudopods. Arcella spp are testate amoebae (have a shell, usually made of protein). Observed during the US National Park Service's Centennial Bioblitz at Piscataway National Park, Maryland.

Phase contrast illumination, speed: ca. 1.5x.

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