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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Life under Antarctice ice sheet

Under an ice sheet almost 200m thick, many kilometers from the sea, one would expect to find no life beyond the single-cell variety. So NASA scientists were stunned to find a 7.5-cm shrimplike amphipod and a jellyfish in liquid water when they drilled a hole to the bottom of the ice.

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