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Reply	Robert G. says: Glaciers wear down the rock they'r sliding over, resulting in fine sand and mud being suspended in glacial meltwater. This accounts for the blue-green colour of glacial lakes and explains where your organism gets its nutrients.It is most likely a form of algae, as the glacial meltwater was unlikely to contain decaying plant material that a fungus could have thrived on. Given enough light, it can thrive inside the bottle and produce oxygen which may be expended by bacteria or by parts of the algae rotting. Being a closed ecosystem with only light coming in and heat getting out, it could go on for quite some time. Not unlike the earth itself in fact.  (no votes) Tags: animals, planet earth.
	posted on 2008-10-02 13:42:00 | Report abuse

Reply	Adrian Ashdown1 says: Recent discoveries on Mars are indicating that the presence of water not only supports life, but that the water molecules themselves may be the very basis for life itself i.e. the first single celled organisms were born of H2O molecules. Further to this, it has been long thought that organs such as eyes and nerves were some of the first to develop. Not so, apparently hair comes first. This may be an example of that however the only fact that puts this into doubt is that it’s usually eyebrows rather than long hair such as that pictured which comes first in most evolutionary paths.  (no votes) Tags: animals, planet earth.
	posted on 2008-10-03 03:14:00 | Report abuse

Reply	Anonymous says: It looks like algae. The same sort of algae that appears from nowhere in ponds (in UK we call it 'blanketweed'). This pond algae appears predominately in ponds that get full sunlight. Have you been keeping the bottle in a sunlit place?  (no votes) Tags: animals, planet earth.
	posted on 2008-10-04 01:45:00 | Report abuse

Reply	Anonymous says: The green alga Chlamydomonas nivalis, grows on glacier snow. Although sporadic amp; not too common, it appears as pinkish colonies on the glacier snow and in some glacier cravasses. it grows, through its full life cycle, in the cold amp; does not need to be thawed out. put it under a transmission light microscope and have a look.  (no votes) Tags: animals, planet earth.
	posted on 2008-10-14 23:59:00 | Report abuse

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