Shrimp-like Creature Found Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet

Posted on March 15, 2010

Six hundred feet below a massive Antarctic ice sheet, where there is no light, NASA scientists discovered a shrimp-like creature. The shrimp-like creature, a Lyssianasid amphipod, decided to hang out on the camera's cable.

A tentacle from a jellyfish was also discovered, but is not in the video. Take a look:

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