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LIFE BELOW LARSEN

The chance discovery of a vast ecosystem beneath the collapsed Larsen Ice Shelf will allow scientists to explore the uncharted life below Antarctica's floating ice shelves and further probe the origins of life in extreme environments. Researchers discovered the sunless habitat after a recent underwater video study examining a deep glacial trough in the northwestern Weddell Sea following the sudden Larsen B shelf collapse in 2002.

http://futurefeeder.com/index.php/archives/2005/07/22/
ecosystem-found-beneath-collapsed-antarctic-ice-shelf/#more-441

 

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