Earth's Ancient Life Forms Are Awakening After 40,000 Years in Permafrost

Earth's Ancient Life Forms Are Awakening After 40,000 Years in Permafrost: From about 1550 to 1850, a global cold snap called the Little Ice Age supersized glaciers throughout the Arctic. On Canada's Ellesmere Island, Teardrop Glacier extended its frozen tongue across the landscape and swallowed a small tuft of moss.