{"id":3760,"date":"2011-12-13T06:34:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2011-12-13T06:34:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T03:34:04","slug":"at-the-mountains-of-microbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/12\/13\/at-the-mountains-of-microbes\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Mountains of Microbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouramazingplanet.com\/2137-antarctica-biggest-mysteries.html\">Living ice in Antarctica<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think this entire ice sheet is alive. That has yet to be proven,&#8221; said John Priscu, a professor at Montana State University, who has been doing field work in Antarctica for 27 years. What is proven, Priscu said, is that bacteria are in the ice. [&#8230;] in tiny veins of liquid water that crisscross the solid ice  [&#8230;] In the lab, ancient bacteria from ice samples 420,000 years old, retrieved from more than 2 miles inside the ice sheet, have quickly shown signs of life. &#8220;We melt the water, and they grow,&#8221; Priscu told Our Amazing Planet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/antarctic_nematode.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"antarctic_nematode\" width=\"529\" height=\"794\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3761\" \/><br \/>\nAbove: common East Antarctica underground nematode.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/worm_from_hell.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"worm_from_hell\" width=\"445\" height=\"339\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3762\" \/><br \/>\nAbove: Halicephalobus Mephisto: new species found nearly a mile deep in the earth&#8217;s crust in summer 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living ice in Antarctica&#8230; &#8220;I think this entire ice sheet is alive. That has yet to be proven,&#8221; said John &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2011\/12\/13\/at-the-mountains-of-microbes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unnamable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}