Posted on 01/18/2019 9:23:31 PM PST by BenLurkin
Full Title: "Scientists find preserved animal carcasses in mysterious Antarctic lake 'twice the size of Manhattan' buried under 3,500 feet of ice"
Scientists in Antarctica have found preserved carcasses of tiny animals in a mysterious lake buried under more than 3,500 feet of ice.
Mercer Subglacial Lake is a hydraulically active lake that lies more 1000m beneath the Whillans Ice Plain, a fast moving section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Researchers managed to drill into the lake for the first time earlier this year, and have now revealed they found signs of life.
According to Nature, researchers found the remains of crustaceans and a tardigrade, or 'water bear' in the icy depths.
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Did they find Jimmy Hoffa’s remains?
I’m betting on them being around 4,000 years old...
Interesting.
I got to thinking they were those tiny minute shrimp from those instant ramen soups in Styrofoam cups.
Antarctica was once warm
They haven’t found expected marsupial and monotreme fossils.
Too much to dig under all that snow. Possible mammal carcasses are well preserved at ultra low temperatures.
Checked it out. Mercer Subglacial Lake isn’t that hot on Travelocity. Apparently a good breakfast buffet, though.
Antarctic lakes are extremely saline... only hypersaline lakes are in Utah and the African Riff valley.
Was it a libtardigrade, or just a regular tardigrade? If the former, then we can speculate with reasonable confidence as to ... just what was the seed of this frozen civilization's doom?
Ah, evolutionists are once again going to have to draft “possibilites” to cover up the obvious Creation.
THE MOST INDUSTRUCTABLE ANIMALS IN THE WORLD
They have eight legs (four pairs) and each leg has four to eight claws that resemble the claws of a bear.
Boil the 1mm creatures, freeze them, dry them, expose them to radiation and they're so resilient they'll still be alive 200 years later.
Water bears can live through temperatures as low as -457 degrees, heat as high as 357 degrees, and 5,700 grays of radiation, when 10-20 grays would kill humans and most other animals.
Tardigrades have been around for 530 million years and outlived the dinosaurs.
The animals can also live for a decade without water and even survive in space.
Why are you betting on them being 4,000 years old? Maybe they are 74,000 years old (Toba).
I’m thinking 40,000 or even 400,000 years
From the sounds of their description, it would surprise me if their are live ones still swimming around down there. (Hmm - 4,000 years, no predators or competition. Hopefully they aren’t 100-feet tall and pissed that we disturbed them!
One wonders what their purpose is ? Fascinating creatures!
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