By Rachel Reilly PUBLISHED: 10:37 EST, 18 June 2013 | UPDATED: 04:47 EST, 19 June 2013 Groundwater found bubbling up from nearly two miles beneath the surface of Canada may predate the emergence of multicellular life, but it certainly doesn't taste great, a leading scientist has claimed. A joint British and Canadian team discovered the ancient pockets of water, which they say are like 'trapped time capsules' cut off from the surface for as long as three billion years. But Barbara Sherwood Lollar, an Earth sciences professor at the University of Toronto, who is studying the water, has described the water as tasting 'terrible' after feeling compelled to take a sip.
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Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar admitted to sipping the ancient water and described it as 'exceptionally salty with an orangy colour'
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Primeval pockets of water are like 'trapped time capsules' cut off from the Earth's surface for nearly billions of years, researchers say
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The similarity between the rocks in the mine and those on Mars raises the hope that similar life-sustaining water could exist on the nearby planet
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