Thriving Ecosystem Discovered Beneath Antarctic Ice

Shariqua Ahmed
Thu, 15 May 2025 07:34:17 -0700

For centuries, the world beneath Antarctica’s thick ice shelves remained one of Earth’s greatest unknowns. No one knew what, if anything, lived there. That changed when a massive iceberg, roughly the size of Chicago, unexpectedly broke away. This rare event gave scientists a once-in-a-lifetime chance to explore a part of the planet that had never been seen before.