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The first ice core drilling campaign of Beyond Epica-Oldest Ice has been successfully completed at the remote Little Dome C site in Antarctica – one of the most extreme places on Earth. By analyzing a deep ice core extracted from the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists aim to find out information on the evolution of the temperatures, the composition of the atmosphere, and on the carbon cycle over the last 1.5 million years.

Ente di diritto pubblico finalizzato alla ricerca e all'innovazione tecnologica, nonché alla prestazione di servizi avanzati alle imprese, alla pubblica amministrazione e ai cittadini nei settori dell'energia, dell'ambiente e dello sviluppo economico sostenibile

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.

‘Major discovery’ beneath Antarctic seas: a giant icefish breeding colony

Scientists discovered a mammoth nesting ground with an estimated 60 million icefish nests in the Weddell Sea.