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Chicago-Sized Iceberg Hid Ancient Ecosystem, Scientists Reveal
Ancient sponges and corals were found on the exposed seafloor, in an area previously inaccessible to humans.
Scientists scrutinizing the seafloor beneath a calving iceberg found a remarkable array of living creatures, switching up notions of how the giant chunks of ice affect their immediate environs. “We didn’t expect to find such a beautiful, thriving ecosystem,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s co-chief scientist and a researcher at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, in a British Antarctic Survey release. The team also collected data on the larger ice sheet, whose shrinking size spells concern for the animals that live beneath it.
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