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Jennifer Lauren Burkhart
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 darkness.
On 5 February 2012, a Russian drill team at Vostok Station punched through the last metres of ice and tapped into a body of water that had been sealed beneath the ice for millions of years.