Lake Vostok and the Search for Life

Lake Vostok

Deep beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheet, hidden from sunlight for millions of years, lies Lake Vostok – one of the most mysterious and scientifically intriguing places on Earth. This sub-glacial lake, buried under more than two miles of ice, could hold vital clues about life’s ability to exist in extreme environments, including the possibility of extraterrestrial organisms on icy moons […]

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Bus Sized Dinosaur Found

Bus Sized Dinosaur Found - Antarctica Journal News

Researchers have found a bus sized dinosaur. A new species of sauropod that lived about 80 million years ago in Egypt.  Paleontologists found the remains in the Sahara Desert of the bus size dinosaur that measured approximately 33 feet long and weighed approximately 5.5 tons.  This long necked, long tailed herbivorous was named Mansourasaurus Shahinae.  It is known that the […]

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