 Researchers have found traces of a heat-loving bacterium that may live beneath a frozen lake in Antarctica. Lake Vostok is covered by more than 3km of ice and must have been isolated from our planet's atmosphere for millions of years. The bacteria appeared in sediment mixed with a core of ice drilled by Russian and French researchers. The heat-loving, or thermophilic, bacterium may suggest that hydrothermal vents exist on the lake floor. Meanwhile, a new ice core drilled this season may reveal whether there is also life in the lake itself. Hundreds of lakes exist beneath the thick Antarctic ice sheet, but with an area of 14,000 sq km Vostok is by far the largest. ...
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