Scientists find...carcasses...in mysterious Antarctic lake...buried under 3,500 feet of ice

Daily Mail UK ^ | 18 January 2019 | Mark Prigg

[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.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

I feed mine kibble...

[caww]

LOLOL

[null and void]

I’m guessing he forgot to add 2019 AD years to Ussher’s 4004 BC date...

[GnuThere]

Wow. My next Halloween costume.
Or is it Whoopi Goldberg before she hits the makeup room?

[Rurudyne]

Cue a music sting....

Tiny carcasses,
In the brine,
Frozen since when,
Feeling no pain.

[janetjanet998]

"he team are unsure how the creatures got there, but one theory is that they inhabited ponds and streams in the Transantarctic Mountains 50km away during brief warm periods, which occurred in the past 10,000 years or 120,000 years ago, and somwhow were transported to Mercer Lake. However, when the climate cooled, the animals were left trapped in an icy grave." ------

ERROR ERROR ERROR ...Man only causes the planet to warm...but there was no Man then..ERROR ERROR ERROR

[ProtectOurFreedom]

And to think all this time we thought it was cement overshoes.

[Secret Agent Man]

4000-4400 years old. Yep.

[Secret Agent Man]

This is no surprise. They found palm trees down tgere, long time ago.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"tiny minute shrimp" -- you must be thinking of the Sea Monkey Family...

[John Locke]

Antarctica was once warm

Plug for my favorite story set in Antarctica.

[Peter ODonnell]

Russians, working with aliens, have caused this.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gleeaikin.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gleeaikin.

[SunkenCiv]

Or so the Germans would have us believe...

[SaveFerris]

[ Scientists find...carcasses...in mysterious Antarctic lake...buried under 3,500 feet of ice ]

I guess that copter never got crushed by the weight of the ice - nor it expanding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Xq0zHRc7Q

And the showed the World Trade Center buildings standing - I guess the buildings did for for some 60+ days after this movie released(?) - wow

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Now we know the ancestry of Ruth Bader (Waterbaderbear) Ginsburg, Rosie O’Donnell, Joyce Behar (the Hebrew version of Waterbear), Maxine “Antarctic” Waters (bears - she changed her name), and Nancy Pelosi (Pelosi is old Italian for Waterbear).

Looks just like them, the spawn of the Ice Devil.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#27. For oldtimers, maybe Judge Crater is down there too.

[jpsb]

Not likely, Antarctica has been glaciated for over 3 million years.

[SaintDismas]

Freezer burned for sure. Too bad 😞