article_snippet: Now, for the first time, scientists have taken uncontaminated samples from deep beneath Taylor Glacier in the hope of finding microbial life.
article_snippet: the two million-year-old iron-heavy seawater trapped under the ice believe that 'extremophiles' possibly living under the surface could be unique in the two million-year-old iron-heavy seawater trapped under the ice ability to survive – and the two million-year-old iron-heavy seawater trapped under the ice may even help in the search for alien life on other planets.
article_snippet: Its chemistry is changed by bacteria, which transforms sulphur and iron in order to survive .
article_snippet: But to learn more about the bacteria, scientists needed samples that were oxidised.
article_snippet: The team are now in the process of analysing the samples. '
highlights_snippet: Organisms living there have been able to survive in extreme conditions .
  
highlights_snippet: Organisms living there ability to survive could aid search for alien life in our solar system .
  
highlights_snippet: For the first time, scientists have captured an uncontaminated sample .
  
highlights_snippet: scientists are now analysing it to learn more about these extreme creatures .