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Life Found Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice

Sophisticated creatures found 600ft below frozen sheet

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 16, 2010 4:09 AM CDT | Updated Mar 16, 2010 5:32 AM CDT

(Newser) – NASA scientists probing 600 feet beneath an Antarctic ice sheet were amazed to find sophisticated life where they had expected to find a few microbes at best. The team put a video camera into the dark subfreezing water and found a shrimp-like creature clinging to...   Read full story »

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