The geologists were more than 150 miles from the open ocean when they bored a hole through the 3,000-foot-thick ice with a hot-water drill and lowered a coring device and a video camera into the dark seawater below it.
Antarctica is ringed with more than half a million square miles of ice shelves – the Filchner-Ronne is one of the largest, covering more than 160,000 square miles – but boreholes have revealed an area of seafloor beneath them only the size of a tennis court. “It’s a huge area, but we have a tiny widow into it,” Griffiths said.
In order to survive, the organisms would have to feed on floating material from other animals or plants, because it is impossible for plants to photosynthesize in the sunless seawater. While the boulder is located about 150 miles from the ocean, the direction of the currents beneath the ice shelf suggests the nearest plant life is up to 1,000 miles away, Griffiths said.
Ha de tratarse de organismos 'extremófilos', adaptados a ese tipo de ambiente gélido.
silent look
Do the sponges have square pants?
Don't tell me there's not life on other planets. I'm sure the universe is teeming with it.
Interesting 🤔
Do you remember when the coelacanth was still regarded a died out species of ancient fish? Wow!
I must be tired or read it too quickly. I was wondering whose black sweater the pitch-black sponges had been found on, and why they didn't just wash it.
All that ice melting next 10 years were gonna find alot of Animals plants
Sponges? Governments even exist under water?
The Baffled Scientists. Good band name.
Jellyfish
Interesting, could there be some sort of thermal vent way down there to provide chemosynthesis? Assuming there’s no other way producers could be down there
Not difficult tbf.
Im sure theres many things going on there we are yet to discover🤔
Interesting
lplatosmith There might be proof of life on Venus soon enough.
SpongeBob Squarepants home world
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