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The lost world beneath the Antarctic
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T.K. RandallMarch 11, 2009 ·
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Image Credit: Calee Allen / NOAA
Scientists from Britain are searching for life forms that have survived untouched for millions of years below the frozen ice of the Antarctic, in a new mission they plan to drill down over two miles in to a sub-glacial lake in search of their goal.
British scientists are about to mount one of the boldest-ever missions, to search for life forms that have survived for possibly millions of years in a frozen "lost world" beneath an ancient ice sheet. This week, a team of Antarctic scientists has been given the go-ahead to drill through a two-mile-thick sheet of ice that has sealed a sub-glacial lake from the rest of the biosphere for at least as long as Homo sapiens has walked the Earth. "
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