Frontiers | Breaking All the Rules: The First Recorded Hard Substrate Sessile Benthic Community Far Beneath an Antarctic Ice Shelf
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The seafloor beneath floating ice shelves accounts roughly a third of the Antarctic’s 5 million km2 of continental shelf. Prior to this study, our knowledge ...

Feb. 2021

These observations challenge our understanding of what types of organisms can survive so far from daylight and have wider implications with regard to the evolution of the first complex organisms on earth, in particular through the “snowball earth” period, astrobiology, and the survival of polar organisms during more recent glacial maxima.