According to Live Science , scientists discovered a land that had been darkened for a long time. It existed in the ocean waters of Antarctica. This land was accidentally found by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) when they explored the mysterious marine ecosystem under the Antarctic shelf.
After analysis, scientists said that this land had not been exposed to light and air for 120,000 years. When a giant iceberg with a size equivalent to the US state of Delaware broke off, this land was "revealed".
“We knew nothing about this land, because it was covered by ice several hundred metres thick,” says Katrin Linse, a marine biologist at BAS. “Once we discovered it, we had to get there quickly before the underwater environment started to change it, especially when sunlight came in and new species started to invade the land.”
This land has not been exposed to sunlight and air for 120,000 years. (Photo: Live Science)
Previously, scientists had hypothesized about the existence of alien-like life forms beneath the permafrost in Antarctica.
This hypothesis was established after they continuously found some strange creatures in Antarctica. Typically, there are sea worms with strange shapes and Antarctic ice fish that have anticoagulants in their blood and body fluids.
They all amazed scientists with their ability to survive in one of the harshest conditions on Earth. Therefore, the possibility of animals appearing in the above land is very high.
It is known that this A-68 iceberg began to break away from the Antarctic shelf decades ago. Small cracks appeared on its surface since the 1960s. The iceberg is estimated to weigh up to 1,000,000 tons.
By July 2017, it had completely broken away from the Antarctic shelf, drifted into the southern ocean and gradually melted to reveal a land mass of more than 5,800 square kilometers. This is also a place that has been confirmed to have not seen the sun for hundreds of thousands of years.
Quoc Thai (Source: Live Science)
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