The Weather Channel Elizabeth Howell, OurAmazingPlanet Published: Mar 8, 2013, 10:58 AM EST
Russia's Vostok Station, in a photograph taken during the 2000 to 2001 field season.
A new type of microbe has been found at a lake buried under Antarctica's thick ice, according to news reports. The find may unveil clues of the surrounding environment in the lake, according to scientists.
The bacteria, said to be only 86 percent similar to other types known to exist on Earth, was discovered in a water sample taken from Lake Vostok, which sits under more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) of Antarctic ice. The freshwater lake has likely been buried, unaltered, under the ice for the past million years.
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