Hidden Beneath Antarctic Ice for Eons, a “Deeply Puzzling” Soviet-era Discovery Finally Reveals Its Secrets

The Debrief ^ | May 12, 2025 | Micah Hanks

[Red Badger]

At The Mountains of Madness..................

[Red Badger]

H.P. Lovecraft Was prescient Ping!................

[Tijeras_Slim]

Commies plagiarizing Miskatonic University again!

[cuban leaf]

Isn’t the whole thing “east/west” Antarctica?🤣

[sit-rep]

I wonder how many totally frozen and perfectly preserved T-Rexs are in the valleys!??

[Petrosius]

You found me!

[Flaming Conservative]

Amazing!

[PIF]

I wonder how many totally frozen and perfectly preserved T-Rexs are in the valleys!??
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They are mostly found near the Black Pyramid.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks RB, nice twofer!

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also, I neglected to ping the GGG list about this:

• Archaeologists discover tomb of Egyptian royalty behind false door: 'Unveils new secrets' [05/12/2025]

[SunkenCiv]

lol

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the 'Eltanin impact' keyword, sorted:

• Antarctica had a rainforest 90 million years ago. [05/18/2024]
• Extreme Cooling Caused Extinction of Early Humans in Europe [08/17/2023]
• "Game-Changing" Discovery of World's Oldest DNA Breaks Record by One Million Years [12/08/2022]
• Oldest DNA reveals life in Greenland 2 million years ago [12/07/2022]
• Why are some icebergs green in Antarctica? Researchers think they've solved century-old mystery [03/05/2019]
• Earth's Thick Ice Sheets Are Young [02/04/2019]
• Scientists find...carcasses...in mysterious Antarctic lake...buried under 3,500 feet of ice [01/18/2019]
• Asteroids have been crushing Earth for nearly 300 million years and no one knows why [01/18/2019]
• Researchers consider whether supernovae killed off large ocean animals at dawn of Pleistocene [12/11/2018]
• The Ross Ice Shelf is Freezing, Not Melting. Which Is Weird. [02/25/2018]
• Deep Bore Into Antarctica Finds Freezing Ice, Not Melting as Expected [02/25/2018]
• Earth Barraged By Supernovae Millions Of Years Ago, Debris Found On Moon [12/16/2017]
• Volcanic Rift Valley Under Antarctica Hotter than Expected [06/13/2014]
• Ancient Ice Melt Unearthed in Antarctic Mud: 20-Meter Sea Level Rise, Five Million Years Ago [07/22/2013]
• (How's This For Strange?) Mysterious Mass Whale Graveyard Unearthed in the Chilean Desert [12/11/2012]
• Massive Eltanin Meteor 2.5 million years ago set off mass tsunami, changed the climate? [09/28/2012]
• Did a Pacific Ocean meteor trigger the Ice Age? [09/20/2012]
• Cosmic Impact Site That Created Earth's Axial Tilt and Fault Lines [12/08/2010]
• Antarctic Glacier Has Five-story Blood-red Waterfall of Primordial Ooze [03/06/2010]
• Amazon River Up To 11 Million Years Old, Says Study [07/08/2009]
• A potential fallacy in ice core studies? [08/05/2008]
• Megaherbs Flourished In Antarctica [03/27/2008]
• Does a giant crater lie beneath the Antarctic ice? [06/05/2006]
• Fossil hunter believes tsunami struck Florida [08/17/2005]
• The Eltanin Impact Crater [10/17/2004]
• Giant asteroid rocked Antarctica [10/17/2004]
• Antarctic Craters Reveal Strike [08/23/2004]
• What Caused Argentina's Craters? [05/09/2002]

[Conan the Librarian]

I worry about the Giant Penguin Creatures more than Cthulhu

[Red Badger]

The Giant Penguin Creatures are food, like cattle, for the Shoggoths............

[Billthedrill]

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn! Calamari for everyone!

[Jonah Hex]

“Tekeli-li!!”

[Jan_Sobieski]

I’ll worry Once the Norwegian camp starts going nuts

[The Louiswu]

There’s water under the ocean.

[WKUHilltopper]

They found Stalin on ice?

[sit-rep]

btt!

[Red Badger]

Amelia Earhart..................