In bitter cold subglacial lake, surprising life goes on
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 5 July, 2013
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Lake Vostok, buried under a glacier in Antarctica, is so dark, deep and cold that scientists had considered it a possible model for other planets, a place where nothing could live. However, researchers have revealed a surprising variety of life forms living and reproducing in this most extreme of environments....