From today’s press reports: A British team is exploring the Antarctic in a search for life unseen for half a million years.

Incidentally, here’s a news report from 1922 on the massive melting of ice across the Arctic. Arctic seas became so warm that ice seals left the region…

Possibly an interesting sidelight on Harry Houdini’s movie The Man from Beyond (1922), featuring a man defrosted from the Arctic ice.