Beneath the Antarctic ice, a lake the size of Lake Ontario has been sealed off from sunlight for roughly 15 million years, and when Russian drillers finally reached Lake Vostok in 2012 they recovered water teeming with traces of life that had evolved in total dark - Space Daily
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When Russian drillers broke through nearly four kilometres of Antarctic ice in February 2012, they reached a lake the size of Lake Ontario that had been sealed in darkness for roughly 15 million years — and recovered traces of life that had been evolving down…
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