Some bacteria from Paleozoan salt deposits have been said to have been re-activated by some scientists back in the early sixities.

Maybeso but this report today seems conclusive.

I will be camping with a guy who works at NASA this weekend. I will ask him about microbiologist Elena Pikuta of the University of Alabama in Huntsville who contributed to the research of the event and try to get her email address.

This is exciting stuff.