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BBC: While the underbelly of Antarctica may not exactly be teeming with life, it certainly supports viable ecosystems.
Scientists have pulled up thousands of different types of micro-organisms from Lake Whillans, a large body of water buried 800m under the ice sheet.
It proves the dark, cold bottom of Antarctica is not a sterile domain.
In doing so, it raises the tantalising prospect that similar benign - albeit challenging - conditions could exist elsewhere in the Solar System.
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Antarctic hides extreme ecosystem
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 20th, 2014
Posted in Water Conservation