{"id":2621,"date":"2010-03-17T01:20:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=2621"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:52:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:52:19","slug":"new-life-discovered-beneath-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/03\/new-life-discovered-beneath-antarctica\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW LIFE DISCOVERED BENEATH ANTARCTICA!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Associated Press<\/a> has reported that a team from NASA<\/a> has made a surprising discovery about the ultra-harsh conditions where higher forms of life can thrive.<\/p>\n

This revelation comes in the shape of a never before seen shrimp-like creature and jellyfish that were seen frolicking six hundred-feet below beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet, where no light shines. Previously scientists had assumed that nothing more than a few microbes could exist in such an environment.<\/p>\n

It was for this reason the NASA team was surprised when — after lowering a video camera to get shots of the underbelly of an ice sheet in Antarctica — a curious, orange, 3-inch long, shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then parked itself on the camera’s cable. Scientists also pulled up a tentacle they believe came from a foot-long jellyfish.<\/p>\n

NASA ice scientist, Robert Bindschadler, who will be presenting the initial findings and a video at an American Geophysical Union meeting Wednesday, had this to say about the discovery:<\/p>\n

“We were operating on the presumption that nothing’s there… we were just gaga over it. Technically, it’s not a shrimp. It’s a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video is likely to inspire experts to rethink what they believe they know about life in harsh environments — in much the same way the discovery of hydrothermal vent communities<\/a> did in 1979. The video also has scientists musing that if shrimp-like creatures can frolic in subfreezing dark water below 600-feet of Antarctic ice, what about other hostile places that are literally OUT OF THIS WORLD<\/a>, such as Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa?<\/p>\n

Biologist Stacy Kim of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California and member of the NASA team expressed the significance of their frozen find:<\/p>\n

“They are looking at the equivalent of a drop of water in a swimming pool that you would expect nothing to be living in and they found not one animal but two… it’s pretty amazing when you find a huge puzzle like that on a planet where we thought we know everything… we have no idea what’s going on down there.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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