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Plant Grows Under Arctic Ice

Beneath A Glaciers White Researchers See Green

Underneath a receding glacier in the Canadian Arctic, researchers found something surprising: a kind of plant related to moss that was not only still green, but also growing.
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Ice Arctic Grows Plant

That is an amazing find almost alien like. We're beginning to see that life can continue in the most adverse conditions.

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Depending on which kind of plant is that, it can also open interesting fields of research. If is just moss, probably will be important from a biological point of view because, even if moss-like plants have often medical applications, that doesn't depend on the environment they grow in (there are many in Siberia as well). But if it has other, more complex, properties it can help to understand how life adapts to extreme conditions and, therefore, how probable it is that similar forms might exist on other planets.

Ice Arctic Grows Plant

This proves that there is so much about our planet we don't know and that our understanding of the conditions under which life can survive is only now being explored. This gives hope to life on Mars.

Ice Arctic Grows Plant

Strange but intersting, how there can be plant that is able to grow and survive in a very cold and harsh environment? I wonder how this thing is able to do that, probably it went through some kind of 'process' that helped it to survive the arctic I think.