Antartica: Russian researchers find unidentified life form under lake

Posted on March 10, 2013 • Filed under: Antartica, Archaeology, Enviromental Issues

ibtimes.co.uk reported that an unknown life form has been discovered thousands of feet under the ice in an Antarctic lake. The bacteria was sealed off for millions of years under 12,000ft of ice in Lake Vostok, the RIA news agency reported. The finding came after Russian engineers drilled through the continent’s frozen crust last year, taking back samples of water from a vast lake that had been untouched for at least 14 million years. Read Article

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