Researchers rethink life in a cold climate after Antarctic find – The Guardian

ScienceScientists surprised by marine organisms on boulder on sea floor beneath 900 metres of ice shelf
The accidental discovery of marine organisms on a boulder on the sea floor beneath 900 metres (3,000ft) of Antarctic ice shelf has led scientists to rethink the limits of life on Earth.
Researchers stumbled on the life-bearing rock after sinking a borehole through nearly a kilometre of the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf on the south-eastern Weddell Sea to obtain a sediment core from the seabed.
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