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Antarctic lake 'might have fish'
2013-07-08 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: There could be some complex animals living in Lake Vostok, which lies close to 4km below Antarctica's ice sheet. The possibility is raised by scientists who have sifted genetic material in ice drilled from close to Vostok's surface. They found signatures for organisms such as bacteria that are often associated with marine molluscs, crustaceans and even fish. But the team cautions in the PLoS One journal that this material may also represent past contamination. Scientists now recognise...
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