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‘The Thing’ becomes real as prehistoric microbes unfrozen

While Hollywood figures out how to film the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing, scientists in Greenland are busy turning that original film into a documentary. From two miles beneath the ice, they’ve unearthed Herminiimonas glaciei, a tiny purple bug that’s been dead for 120,000 years. And now, they’re alive — and reproducing. From the [...]