Scientists from MIT studied how organisms live in modern Antarctic meltwater ponds to predict how similar organisms would ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

In 2018, members of a New Zealand research team visited the McMurdo ice shelf in east Antarctica, home to several such pools, ...

The team drew its conclusions based on an analysis of modern-day meltwater ponds. Today in Antarctica, small pools of melted ice can be found along the margins of ice sheets. The conditions along ...

A group of scientists said Thursday that they had found an astonishing diversity of micro-organisms in tiny pools of melted ...

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The climate near the equator at the time resembled modern-day Antarctica ... dotted the equator were another proposed refuge. These ponds could have been oases for eukaryotes, complex organisms ...