This Isn't Water, It's Shoggoth Blood!

Russian researchers in Antarctica have drilled through more than 2 miles of ice and extracted a ten million year old water sample from "Lake Vostok" underneath.

Between the novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. (writing as Don A. Stuart), the oeuvre of Howard Phillip Lovecraft, and John Carpenter's take on cinematic take on Antarctic science, this is not something that I find particularly reassuring.