More Antarctic news:
In a surprising discovery about where higher
life can thrive, scientists found a shrimplike creature and a jellyfish
frolicking beneath an Antarctic ice sheet.
Six hundred feet below the ice where no light
shines, they had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could
exist. That’s why a NASA team was surprised when it lowered a video
camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of the ice sheet in
Antarctica, and a 3-inch shrimp-like creature went swimming by and then
parked itself on the camera’s cable. Scientists also pulled up a
tentacle they believe came from a foot-long jellyfish.“We were operating on the presumption that
nothing’s there,” said NASA scientist Robert Bindschadler, who will
present the initial findings and a video at an American Geophysical
Union meeting tomorrow.
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