After discovering the iceberg discovered the amazing antartic creatures of the sea
An iceberg calf explained a region that man had never seen ever, revealing an intense and prosperous ecosystem
A large sponge, a set of anemonuses and other life is seen in a depth of almost 230 meters in an area of the seabed, recently covered by a humble ice shelf. The sponges can grow very slowly, sometimes less than two inches per year, so this issue of this issue has been active in this community in decades, maybe even hundreds of years.
ROV Subastian / Schmidt Ozeano Institute
HP Lovecraft in the cold Novella of Science Fiction In Madness Mountains, While a group of researchers explores the residue of an ancient civilization while exploring the Antarctica. A real team has investigated what is under floating ice on the frozen continent, and the discoveries are certainly other worlds.
Scientists Schmidt Ocean Institute Research Ship Fallor (also) Antarctica sailed the surrounding coast, to study the creatures living there, the creatures that live there and climate change causes ecosystems evolved in ice Antarctica and its surroundings. But after an annual ice plan, Chicago size broke from an annual ice shelf, 13 January.
The iceberg behind the ice front was released in the sea of Bellingshausen.
Alex Ingle / Schmidt Ocean Institute
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This event was very good: the possibility of exploring the sea under the original location of the iceberg. “It has been a feeling to go to the unknown,” Expedition said Sasha Montelli University University of Sasha Montelli. “We thought we could see a little life there, but it was amazing to see the level growing in such an enemy atmosphere. And he was not alone there, but it seemed to be very long.”
Researchers sent a depth of the submarine robot of the subastian and found an ecosystem full of anemonous trees in Seuss, along with sea spiders, along with ice fish, along with octoples. Some creatures that are new species, and many can only be found near Antarctica. In addition to being remote, the continent isolated for millions of years according to the currents of the Antarctic Circumolar, which surrounds a Moat around a castle.
An octopus is a depth of 1150 meters of the sea, in the sea of Bellingshausen.
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The tentacles of a lonely hydroid are compulsory to wander the depth of 360 meters. Linked George VI was covered with shelf ice on the seabed. Solo hydroids are associated with coral, jellyfish and anemones, but they are not formed in colonies.
ROV Subastian / Schmidt Ozeano Institute
“The sea of Belleshausen has not explored a lot of expedition, and in fact, some, snails, worms and fish also confirmed, says the Patricia and Portuguese University of the Center at the Center of the Center of the Environment and Maritime Studies Center.
Researchers also found great sponge sponsions at their age. “Based on animal size, the communities we saw have been in decades, maybe even hundreds of years,” said esquete Last Press Release.
The observatories draw a strict contrast of previous research carried out under the ice, which threw the camera down the holes drilled on the ice, or after an iceberg was whipped. “These studies indicated that the ecosystems seemed to be quite impoverished, with a limited number of species,” said Esquete. “We now know on the ice shelves, at least in the previous 15 kilometers” – new researchers of the new expedition were able to explore new researchers of the expedition – “There are very well-established ecosystems”.
The squid eats a fish almost 950 meters in the sea of the sea.
ROV Subastian / Schmidt Ozeano Institute
Patricia Esquete inspects the new species of isopods, sampling from the bottom of Bellingshausen. Scientists will last for years to describe all the new species found in this expedition.
Alex Ingle / Schmidt Ocean Institute
It is not so specific that the lively ecosystem will come out now that the iceberg has broken. Many deep-sea inhabitants adapt to changing conditions found in their environment, so they are very sensitive to small environmental changes. For the life forms covered in the sea of Bellingshaus, the dramatic loss of the iceberg ceiling can take the ecosystem.
Montelli says floating ice ice shelves around 25 kilometers (40 km) back in the last 50 years, the only example of accelerating ice loss on the continent. “Antarctic ice loss is an important collaborator between sea levels around the world,” Montelli said in the final press notes. “Our work is critical for a long-term context of these latest changes, improving the ability to projue future change.”
