Scientists recently discovered life where they least expected it! Organisms found beneath a boulder on an Antarctic ice shelf could change how we perceive life on our planet.
Scientist drilled a hole through the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf, which is at least 900-metre-thick. Soon after, they sent in a camera down the hole to look for mud on the seabed. But what they found will forever change what we know about life in the Antarctic. They found that many organisms called the boulder its home.
The accidental discovery of marine organisms on a boulder on the sea floor beneath 900 metres (3,000 ft) of Antarctic ice shelf has led scientists to rethink the limits of life on Earth. Researchers stumbled on the life-bearing rock after sinking.
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Scientists drilled through over half a mile of ancient, coastal Antarctic ice in 2016. Into the abyss, they lowered a camera and reached the seafloor, glimpsing a freezing, lightless world, hundreds of miles from any typical sources of food.
Did they see anything alive?Â
Yes. Beneath the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf â part of an enormous ice sheet that floats over the ocean â researchers unexpectedly spotted eerie sponges on stalks and other still unidentified invertebrates clinging to a boulder. Never before had anyone observed such life isolated so far under an ice shelf, a finding the researchers reported Monday in the journal
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