Picture is the drill shaft through a kilometer (0.62 miles) of ice above Lake Mercer in Antarctica
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“If any of these animals were Lake Mercer–dwellers, it’s possible that some of them may still be kicking around down there, Harwood* says. “It’s interesting to think that life can exist in really extreme environments” such as an Antarctic lake that has been cut off from both the ocean and atmosphere for thousands of years, Harwood says. “If life is still persisting there, that’s important for our thoughts about what we might find out in space.”
*expedition member David Harwood, a micropaleontologist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
