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Lake Vostok: ‘Unclassified Life’ Found -UPDATED 8
- March 9, 2013
“After excluding all known contaminants…we discovered bacterial DNA that does not match any known species listed in global databanks. We call it unidentified and ‘unclassified’ life,” It starts. We’ve been keeping tabs on the exciting excavation that’s been going on in Antartica’s Lake Vostok. Today, I got news that Russian scientists have unearthed (or
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Lake Vostok: Lifeless….So Far 1
- October 19, 2012
Antarctica’s lake Vostok is a prehistoric frozen wonderland. What lays dormant in the frozen abyss has been there for 65 million years. Way back when strange marsupials frolicked the hot and humid Antarctic rainforest. Today, Lake Vostok is a massive ice cube that’s been under the scientific community’s radar for quite some time. With recent
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Scientists Reach Lake Vostok 9
- February 11, 2012
After a decade of drilling through the thick ice cap, Russian scientists have finally bore a hole deep enough to reach the underground lake that time forgot. Lake Vostok in Antarctica is a large lake – about the size of Lake Ontario – and has been sitting underneath a thick ice cap that is 2
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