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Scene from "The Thing," which isn't happening for real in the Antarctic right now. We hope.

Russian Scientists Have Not Been Eaten By Prehistoric Antarctic Lake Monsters

Contrary to somewhat overheated reports from Fox News regarding their mysterious silence, scientists with Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute are probably just very busy. The Russian team has been drilling through 13,000 feet of Antarctic ice to reach subterranean Lake Vostok, a body of water that hasn’t seen daylight for 20 million years. On Thursday, an article published by Fox News seemed to leave open the prospect the scientists might have reached their goal and perhaps awakened some horrible evil from beyond time and space: Read More