15 January 2007

"Life Jim but not as we know it"

European scientists have found a new life form in the Arctic Ocean. The organisms, christened picobiliphytes, are plant-like, fluorescent and very, very small. Team member Dr. Connie Lovejoy said that "the divergence of this group from known organisms is as great as the difference between land plants and animals".

Whether they will survive global warming is open to question.

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