British Antarctic Survey scientist Huw Griffiths explained how a team of geologists drilling through the ice to collect sediment samples found something quite unexpected half a mile under the Antarctic ice shelf:
“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.”
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