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Thriving Ecosystem Discovered Beneath Antarctic Ice

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The seafloor beneath the iceberg was teeming with marine animals like this octopus( Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute)

For centuries, the world beneath Antarctica’s thick ice shelves remained one of Earth’s greatest unknowns. No one knew what, if anything, lived there. That changed when a massive iceberg, roughly the size of Chicago, unexpectedly broke away. This rare event gave scientists a once-in-a-lifetime chance to explore a part of the planet that had never been seen before.