Strange Life Forms Accidentally Discovered Deep Below Antarctica

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Strange Life Forms Accidentally Discovered Deep Below Antarctica.
As scientists continue to peer into the great unknown that is the deep sea, strange creatures, like so many water-type Pokemon, keep appearing.
Now, a team of marine biologists and geologists has found more bizarre, mysterious sea life; this time, nearly 3,000 feet below an antarctic ice shelf.
And it may reshape our conception of the way life works in frigid, lightless places.
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Wired reported on the discovery, which a team at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) recently announced.
The team, led by marine biologist Dr.
Huw Griffiths, found the new life more than half a mile beneath the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Southern Ocean.
The team was performing a survey 160 miles inland from their ships when they stumbled upon the surprising sea life.
“We were expecting to retrieve a sediment core from under the ice shelf, so it came as a bit of a surprise when we hit the boulder and saw from the video footage that there were animals living on it,” Dr.

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