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Scientists Drilled 1.7 Miles Into the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Found a Million-Year-Old Secret

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An international team of researchers drilled the Antarctic ice sheet and extracted a colossal 2,800-meter ( 9,186-foot ) long ice core.

Analysis of the core’s fragments revealed that it was 1.2 million years old .

The core was retrieved from Little Dome C , one of the harshest and most extreme locations on the planet, featuring bitterly whipping winds and freezing temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.