Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'
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Biologists say the inadvertent discovery of sea life on a boulder underneath an Antarctic ice shelf and hundreds of kilometres challenges our understanding of how far organisms can live from sunlight.
A British Antarctic Survey team drilled through the 900-metre-thick Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf and dropped a camera down the hole in search of mud on the seabed. To their surprise, the camera revealed a boulder ringed by animals. Video footage appear to show 16 sponges, accompanied by 22 unidentified animals which could include barnacles. It is the first time such immobile life has been found beneath an Antarctic ice sheet. “There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,” says Huw Griffiths at the British Antarctic Survey, who analysed the footage.
Read more: www.newscientist.com/article/2267737-life-found-beneath-antarctic-ice-sheet-shouldnt-be-there/
A British Antarctic Survey team drilled through the 900-metre-thick Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf and dropped a camera down the hole in search of mud on the seabed. To their surprise, the camera revealed a boulder ringed by animals. Video footage appear to show 16 sponges, accompanied by 22 unidentified animals which could include barnacles. It is the first time such immobile life has been found beneath an Antarctic ice sheet. “There’s all sorts of reasons they shouldn’t be there,” says Huw Griffiths at the British Antarctic Survey, who analysed the footage.
Read more: www.newscientist.com/article/2267737-life-found-beneath-antarctic-ice-sheet-shouldnt-be-there/
Apparently there is red sand on mars, lots of it oooooooooo yawn
This is a clickbait right?
Ancient organisms and virus trapped for millions of years. Such a good time to set them free.
How do they know its alive?
That rock looks out of place.🤔Comet.🤔
in my opinion life started in the deep sea and worked it's way up
남극의 신비..... 신종 생물이 인간세계를 위협할지도 모르고 무섭다
Sponge bob i mean...
Thanks for the subtitles, as I couldn't hear much of the commentatoress due to the bleeding loud soundtrack!
Couldn't see anything but ok cool
Why say it shouldnt be there. Just because it beyond understanding as we know it. Its there cause it should be. Im sure theres way more that we dont know.
put it back, seal it back!
Sweet! How long till we manage to destroy this habitat now that we’ve found it?
Just long enough to exploit it
😂😂 they accidentally destroyed their half of population 😂😂😂
So the video clip duration is only 0.51 secs... come on..! You can do better than that..!!
Life is everywhere...
Darwin: That my bois B)
Just dont wake up the Godzilla ..
😂
The thing !!!
how can it be liquid water underneath 900 meters of ice no sun no daylight i dont understand
Scary .
If there are filter feeders, then there are microbes to eat, too. Did they bring up a water sample?
I think Dr. Ian Malcolm put it best when he said "life finds a way".
Was someone expecting something fucking big and slow to appear? Or a big eye open from the sand
First thing that came out my mind is" Richard E. Byrd" The high jump operation
Another proof for the famous quote from Jurassic Park "Life finds a way".
Looks like it’s growing off whale 🐋 poo 💩
Saw this on the news came straight here
reminds me of the humonculos video. by planet nibru or that one russian guy
I liked the boulder; rounded like in a river, in the ocean. Glacial erratic is my guess. Who knows what life it brought down there when it sank?
The Thing
aww man I wanna see some crazy new animal, not something that's usually on our plates
May be alien 👽 spices
“Life...uh..finds a way.”
This video needs to be a lot shorter, with much louder music, way more massive embedded subtitles, and more adds plastered all over. Great discovery, but a solid thumbs down for the video
how do i get rid of the writing?
Remove the video suggestions from the bottom right at the end of the video, it’s blocking the content..
Scientists: this shouldn’t be here! Life: *flips the bird*
XD
It makes you wonder what else could be found with more exploration.
@Cyber Batman we already have your selfies
Deez nuts
I giant double headed dildo with wings
This video is awesome.
I couldn't see the video - very irritating. Also why have you made the subtitles permanent and part of the video!? I couldn't get rid of the subtitles
how is there snow on the ground underwater?
What is referred to as “snow” is actually very fine particulates which sit on the bottom until some scientists come along with a camera and cause the water current to stir things up.
>Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet... Second Impact incoming I guess...
oh god oh fuck
This may say quite a bit about the likelihood of finding life on Europa.
@Daniel Stadden I believe so
@Exauce Mayunga is Earth life the only life
Europa's ice is not the same as Earth's
I was about to type the same thing! I'm really looking forward to when that mission goes ahead.
🥱 do better
is there any more footage of this?
Me to
I'm interested
They found Spongebob!!!!
sponges and some golden teachers.
1. Thanks for finally narrating these videos! 2. Nobody should ever be surprised at where life turns up, especially not on Earth.
They're the oldest animals too.
Terrible existence
It's resilience like this that convinces me that when humanity eventually destroys itself in nuclear winter, some will still carry on, repopulate, and there will be more resilience and prosperity until we do it again, repeat, repeat, repeat...
But then the sun runs out of fuel
Music louder than the voice and the important part of the clip was way too short to see anything :/
I'd be a little careful about poking around down there; you may not like what you find.
@Tehehe Hmm I’m sorry but I’m not going to take you seriously when you can’t even spell “being” correctly. I hope you don’t grow up with that same opinion, otherwise I’d only have to hope you never add to the gene pool. People with your type of mindset slow the progression of science and reasoning with your ignorance and stupidity.
@Cherry [L] it’s better to not know
@Cherry [L] what does he mean “by bieng left alone” ITS BY BIENG LEFT ALONE ...you may not like what you find down there ...you could find some new species of shark or fish or slug or what ever but it’s better to be left alone plus like the person said “unholy,nightmarish,creepy stuff “
@Renata loving life yeah like indigenous people
@Renata loving life What do you think “should be left alone”
The question is How did Noah drill a hole in the ice then find two of these creatures and finally put them in his Ark untill the flood was over ?
@Egors Deimos logical man
@Egors Deimos So true
Well if they could survive in water, why the fuck would he put them on a boat? They are already fine
It was a team of geologists, not biologists, that made the discovery. They then consulted with an off-site biologist.
Every time we find out that life is more “diverse and adaptive” than expected it sucks cause like.... where all the other life at in the universe
This "life" isn't all that "adaptive" - the problem is that the Antarctic sea waters are so unusually warm that creatures are coming in off the adjacent sea currents and deciding to stay.
Presume these life forms need something to feed on to grow and procreate, does that suggest there is more life down there then what the video suggests.
@Chris Palmer "Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there' - the sea creatures are there now because over the past several years, volcanic heat has been warming up the sea waters which rapidly melts the ice shelves - the unusually warm sea waters also attracts creatures from passing sea currents.
@Whirled Publishing based on what? Those things could be centuries old.
Yes - they're not admitting that the cause for this is that the sea waters are unusually warm.
When is the human psyche going to realise that "life find a way". No matter what kind of life it is.
Found that out when I left a piece of pizza under my bed for a year
Would love to read detail article about its exploration & identification as it gets published. Cong to all the team members.🌷
I bet they'd love a warm hell compared to that ice hole😅 Life is awesome.
Awesome find.. :-) Kudos to the Biologist. :-))
Why are there 'things' on the screen. You know, where the video is supposed to be?
This is really big news, since the underground sea under Antarctica has been isolated from the rest of the world for millions of years. The place is completely inhospitable and these complex life forms have been able to adapt and survive. This makes a visit to Jupiter's moon Europa even more exiting!
It's not isolated - sea currents from the South Pacific and South Atlantic flow along there - and those sea currents come from the equatorial Pacific and equatorial Atlantic..
Animals? looks like mushrooms
mushrooms are animals, they respire, not photosynthesise.
It's really thoughtful that the 20% off overlay completely and irritatingly obscured the video annotation. Thanks! From a subscriber - to New Scientist, itself. Presumably these life forms were 20% Off.
@New Scientist No, you haven't. Instead of trying to 'adjust', how about "trying" to get the junk off the screen so we can see the video you posted?
Hi. The juxtaposition was unfortunate. I'm not sure you can put a value on newly discovered lifeforms. 20% off priceless is still, well, priceless. I've adjusted now for a better experience. Thanks for being a subscriber.
0:20 - *sessile
Cool, couldn't tell what the other stuff that as being pointed to because of the 20% off ad in the corner. Solid!
@IonianGarden don't show them to the Chinese, they'll eat them.
Yeah! Always having these ads at the end blocking the view for the last few seconds
Oops. We'll take a look.
Antarctic sponges, 20% off! Come on down!
scary