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Scientists Surprised by Living Organisms in Sea Floor under Antarctica – Asharq Al-awsat – English

A report by The Guardian revealed that the accidental discovery of marine organisms on a boulder on the sea floor beneath 900 meters of Antarctic ice shelf has…

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A report by The Guardian revealed that the accidental discovery of marine organisms on a boulder on the sea floor beneath 900 meters 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 kilometer of the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf on the south-eastern Weddell Sea to obtain a sediment core from the seabed.
While the boulder scuppered their chances of obtaining the core, footage from a…

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