A team of investigation of the NASA was perforating a well of approximately 20 centimeters in diameter and 2 meters deep in the Antarctica.
They were hoping to observe the thickness of the Antarctic ice but, for his surprise, a small creature crossed swimming in front of the screen and immediately it settled on the cable of the video camera. Since it is possible to appreciate in the video, his form was alike that of a shrimp.
When they raised the video camera, there was also a long tentacle coiled in the cable, which the scientists awarded to a jellyfish, or to a similar animal.
“We were operating under the assumption of which there was nothing below,” there said the scientist of the NASA Robert Bindchandler, who will present tomorrow the initial discoveries, together with the video, to American Geophysical Union for a better analysis.
“Technically, it is not a shrimp, but a crustacean called Lysianassidae Amphipoda, which is vaguely related to the shrimp.”, the scientist detailed.
The surprising of the case is that he was not hoping to be any more than any microorganisms surviving so extreme environmental conditions. The video would reveal that the complex life can develop under the dark and frozen water. What is there then of the extreme and hostile places for the life in the Solar system, like Europe, the frozen moon of Jupiter?
The microbiologist Cynan Ellis-Evans, of British Antarctic Survey, catalogs to the find like schemer. “This is the first time that finds a form of complex life straight under the ice of an ambience subglacier”.
Skeptic on this matter, he thought the possibility that these swimming creatures should have come from another place and should not live permanently under the Antarctic ice.
Nevertheless, Kim, coauthor of the study, doubts it. The place excavated in the western Antarctica is to at least 19 kilometers of the open sea. Bindschadler excavated a small well with small water quantity. This means that it is improbable that the creatures have swum big distances and they were captured at random in this small area.
But if the found creatures were indigenous, it is necessary to wonder on what they might feed in these extreme conditions. While some microorganisms can develop chemically their own food in the ocean, the complex life (paradoxically), how the arthropods, they cannot.
“It is amazing to find a big mystery as this one in a planet where we think that we know everything”, Kim concludes.
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