 [Sputnik] The lead author of the study noted that scientists will have to "find a way of getting up close" to the newly discovered creatures in order to learn more about them.
A peculiar breed of stationary creatures has been discovered by scientists beneath the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
According to EurekAlert!, the researchers drilled through some 900 meters of ice in order to collect sediment samples, only to find stationary animals, "similar to sponges and potentially several previously unknown species", attached to "a boulder on the sea floor". |