HX's Roald Amundsen finds aliens in the Antarctic
HX's MS Roald Amundsen captures alien-like sea life in rare underwater drone footage from the unexplored Stonington Island in Antarctica.
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HX's MS Roald Amundsen captures alien-like sea life in rare underwater drone footage from the unexplored Stonington Island in Antarctica.
As soon as the remotely operated camera glimpsed the bottom of the Weddell Sea, more than 1,000 feet below the icy ceiling at the surface, Lilian Boehringer, a student researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, saw the icefish nests. The sandy craters dimpled the seafloor, each the size of a hula hoop and less than a foot apart. Each crater held a single, stolid icefish, dark pectoral fins outspread like bat wings over a clutch of eggs.
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