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Ross Island Ice Caves Could Be Home to "New World" of Plants and Animals
Topic Started: Sep 12 2017, 08:17 PM (297 Views)
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Surprised to see no one else posted it yet:

http://www.newsweek.com/antarctica-ice-caves-volcanoes-hidden-biodiversity-661642

Very fascinating, and very exciting. Like something straight out of a Lost World project.

More seriously, while I certainly hope explorers will find a cavern full of Pre-Cambrian fauna and surviving dinosaurs, I seriously doubt it. Ice caves are by their very nature ephemeral and temporary, never mind ice caves carved out by volcanic heat. Surely they collapse any time the volcano erupts? I suspect the arthropod DNA is microscopic.
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.... That's extremely interesting....
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