The crystals contained tiny pockets of liquid, and the team found that they could grow live colonies of archaeans from samples of it. (newscientist.com)
They create huge, long - lived colonies with a quarter of a million individuals, and queens that live for seven years. (discovermagazine.com)
Third in order were the short - lived colonies established by German Jews already in this country to take care of part of the flood of penniless Russian Jews in the eighties. (fortune.com)