Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

Two mountaineers (one of them Reinhold Messner) with Otzi, Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, in the Otztal Alps between Austria and Italy in September 1991. Credit: Paul Hanny/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Two mountaineers (one of them Reinhold Messner) with Otzi, Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, in the Otztal Alps between Austria and Italy in September 1991. …