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Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice

Chroniton writes "NASA ice scientists have found a shrimp-like creature and a possible jellyfish 'frolicking' beneath 600 feet of solid Antarctic ice, where only microbes were expected to live. The odds of finding two complex lifeforms after drilling only an 8-inch-wide hole suggests there may be much more. And if such life is possible beneath Earth's oceans, why not elsewhere, like Europa?"

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  1. Re:Surely nuclear subs have been there? by hrimhari · · Score: 1, Redundant

    surely someone's sent one under the Southern ice sheets by now?

    I doubt it, since it's a continent. The other is an ocean.

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