Scientists find shrimp-like creature under Antarctic ice sheet
(15 Mar 2010)
Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf, Antarctica - December 2009
1. Shrimp-like creature swimming around camera cable inside bore hole
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA - 12 March 2010
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Bindschadler, NASA Ice Scientist: (++AUDIO OVERLAID OVER PREVIOUS SHOT++)
"What the video shows is the view of the bottom of a bore hole through about a 200 metre thick ice shelf close to McMurdo Station. And so while we were looking at the video examining the hole, lo and behold this marine organism came swimming by. I called it a shrimp-like thingy, because I don''t know anything about marine biology. But it was just fascinating to see this amphipod, is what it''s actually, its proper name is, swimming around and being very curious, looking at the cable and we were all huddled around the monitor just fascinated with what we were seeing at the bottom of our hole. Well, when I showed this to a marine biologist she was quite surprised because we are a long way from the open ocean - about 20 miles (32 kilometres) - and this is a higher life form, this is pretty far up the food chain and if it is swimming around that means that there is quite a lot of life at this location and that was a surprise to us because it was a surprise to them. One of the funny things about this was that we were staring at it and it was probably, we had lots of questions in our mind and it probably had lots of questions in its mind. It probably was just swimming along and something new and different showed up in front of it and so it was extremely curious. It was swimming around and sitting on the cable and looking at it from every angle, going up and down and I''m sure this was a very interesting day in the life of that amphipod, as it was for us. Yeah, this was not the only indication of life there. We lowered this camera almost all the way to the seafloor, we didn''t have quite enough cable to go the full 800 metres (2624 feet), and when we pulled the cable up we also saw what looked like tentacles from a jellyfish attached to the cable. So, there is a lot of life down there and I think we don''t really know the first thing about it. It''s a entirely new frontier for us to explore."
STORYLINE:
Scientists have discovered a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish deep beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Six hundred feet (180 metres) below the ice where no light shines, scientists had thought nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.
But a NASA team was surprised when they lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of the ice sheet in Antarctica.
A curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then parked itself on the camera''s cable.
Scientists also pulled up a tentacle they believe came from a foot-long jellyfish.
NASA ice scientist Robert Bindschadler, who will be presenting the initial findings and a video at an American Geophysical Union meeting on Wednesday said his team was operating on the presumption that nothing was living underneath the ice sheet.
"This is a higher life form, this is pretty far up the food chain and if it is swimming around that means that there is quite a lot of life at this location and that was a surprise," he said of the 3-inch-long, orange creature starring in their two-minute video.
The creature is not actually a shrimp, but a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is distantly related to shrimp.
The video is likely to inspire experts to rethink what they know about life in harsh environments.
Ellis-Evans said it''s possible the creatures swam in from far away and don''t live there permanently.
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Juliana Marie-Louise
Prije 14 sati
Somebody come get 'er She dancing like a shripr
djo lo
Prije 17 sati
shrimp: *doing a big succ on the cable* scientists: hmmm.... interesting
Jack Dud
Prije 2 dana
He was just following proper decompression procedures
Omar Shabib
Prije 3 dana
Lil nas x shrimp
Fahad Ashraf
Prije 3 dana
At first I thought there were Chimps down there
Orkistis Assassínon
Prije 4 dana
New specie?
David Plenderleith
Prije 6 dana
I found a hole today, Don’t know where it came from, I’m still looking into it
greenbluesea_day mail
Prije 7 dana
Humans: let’s dig into the Antarctic ground Aliens: let’s send a microchip shrimp on the surface.
SUSPECT
Prije 7 dana
It seems like a little alien
Emmanuel García Rojas
Prije 10 dana
ㄷ 기자 가수 이효리가 남편 시어머니 등 다양한
Eric Schuh
Prije 10 dana
But why does the ice look like that?
Julius Berten
Prije 10 dana
I like to imagine that this specific species has never been discovered before and now its biological name will forever be shrimp like thingy
David Blake
Prije 11 dana
We are blessed by the gods with this knowledge.
Matt
Prije 11 dana
🍤 GANG WYA??! 😤
Hong Meiling
Prije 11 dana
When the scientist put the cable on the hole. Shrimp-like creature : Oooooh wow! Wtf is this?
fyrstikken
Prije 13 dana
They got Shrimps, lets go people. A new world!
Jacopo Maria Gentile
Prije 14 dana
thet found a migo nice
Freddy Pedraza
Prije 15 dana
Penguins: we don't know what it is but we wants
Derikimi
Prije 16 dana
Is it alone?
Dark Forest
Prije 16 dana
Just Google it: "Case closed in 3034"
SmolTaco
Prije 16 dana
Biology tests in a nutshell: 0:19
жызгылдыз армандерян
Prije 16 dana
His voice sounds like Techoblade's
Epic Gamer
Prije 17 dana
arctic guardian
SpecterX
Prije 18 dana
But why is it SO damn cute
Franky is busy
Prije 18 dana
in short, they found it cute
Andrea Fiore
Prije 19 dana
That shrimp is probably more surprised than we are
A YouTube Channel
Prije 20 dana
That ice is so T H I C C
Doroti Strasszer
Prije 21 dan
WHATTTT, ITS SO CUTEE
Dante GZ
Prije 21 dan
This gives the same energy as the guy who ended in the twelfth plane of torment on his way to the kitchen
Nogardtist
Prije 24 dana
well theres a theory that theres life under the antarctic ice probably similar possibility to jupiters moon europa where life exists under the massive layer of ice but having tons of life in the sunless abyss
That_One_Weeb 21
Prije 24 dana
I dont like the term “ shrimp - *like* “
Gameday Swede
Prije 24 dana
Alien for sure!
WePlayTogether
Prije 26 dana
Thats the flood
まてちゃ🧉
Prije 28 dana
なんだろう、、めちゃ怖い
Radical Gear
Prije 28 dana
Amphipod? Edit: yup I rewatched with the volume on and he says it a few times. They’re rad and there’s a lot different ones. The phronima is a cool one for sure. Looks gnarly.
Wasted Shin
Prije 29 dana
Entire retard comment section: shrimp like thingy
Ishtiaque Khan
Prije 29 dana
AllahuAkbar
blood and guts
Prije 29 dana
What's that black layering as if it's ice cream? I'd imagine the machine that bored into the hole left that pattern, and they're not naturally occurring?
Shamila Shoukath ali
Prije mjesec
Bro you need to learn how to do a great edit
itsnotmeitshim
Prije mjesec
murderers, you pulled off a jelly fishes testicals!!
Vain Moo
Prije mjesec
And the little shrimp call us Monkey Like Thingy.
glossom hyper
Prije mjesec
my question is, what are those net looking thingies?
The Pudge
Prije mjesec
Ya can’t believe you were able to find such a high life form looks, he tops the food chain for sure.
jake lencher
Prije mjesec
the way it curls up looks like a shrimp, the way it swims looks like a shrimp, it has a little horn on its head like a shrimp..... its a shrimp.
ginnundso
Prije mjesec
cute
Bellpepper
Prije mjesec
Lil shrimpy boi was looking at his reflection in the ice wall, cutest little amphropod
Froggy Boi
Prije mjesec
I find the ocean super cool and interesting but I also am deeply afraid of it so when the camera kept going down I was starting to panic bc ITS SO DARK
YUNVMY COOLNAME
Prije mjesec
Red lobster 🦞 menu bout to get a update 😋
Brandon Burt
Prije mjesec
Arthropod?
Rider bunny
Prije mjesec
This is one of the ghost of shrimp
SynTaco
Prije mjesec
I guess that is part of the 0.01% of Gawr Gura fan
XENSHiN
Prije mjesec
Agartha's
Dan D
Prije 2 mjeseci
the russians have been doing this for years so the credit goes to them
The Giant Mollusk
Prije 2 mjeseci
Aliens: *WAIT THEY WEREN’T SUPPOSE TO FIND THAT*
Artanis Fist
Prije 2 mjeseci
Computer graphics animation there so much fakery now a days
West Australia
Prije 2 mjeseci
China: We eat all now
Mx Es
Prije 2 mjeseci
"this is a higher lifeform" KNEEL BEFORE YOUR ARCTIC SHRIMP GOD
Ernesto Marrero
Prije 2 mjeseci
Fake: that is clearly a chain-linked fence area. Goddamn shrimp thingy farms
k r y s t a l
Prije 2 mjeseci
1:38 ☺
CAS
Prije 3 mjeseci
Kill it with fire!
a man of culture
Prije 3 mjeseci
I know what it is It is the SIMP
That Weeb
Prije 3 mjeseci
This really be on my recommendations after 5 yearz
Velociraptor
Prije 3 mjeseci
A n o m a l o c a r i s
Ko Hunji
Prije 3 mjeseci
The way this man describes it sounds like he hasn't seen any other life forms other than himself on the mirror 😆 I don't know... something about his tone.
Peepo Sad
Prije 3 mjeseci
That shrimp be brighter then my future! Like damn
Joseph Joestar
Prije 3 mjeseci
He went back and told the mermaids to go deeper
Normal_Russian_Fox.mp4
Prije 3 mjeseci
Does this hole set off anybody else's trypophobia?
Bum Bum
Prije 3 mjeseci
The shrimp be like :0
Apelsenya
Prije 3 mjeseci
Go to my channel and click on ”about channel” ;D
Ciel Phantomhive
Prije 3 mjeseci
that's a shrimp why is that Suprising it's a food
Xx Wolfey xX
Prije 3 mjeseci
I saw it, and I was like, is this the thing, I thought it was gonna be a huge monster shrimp 🦐
Cyberツ
Prije 3 mjeseci
Anyone in 2021
Jonathan Payeur
Prije 3 mjeseci
Don’t dig in Antartica! You haven’t see The Thing!?
Phia
Prije 3 mjeseci
Thank you, HRgreen recommendations
Drip Monke Kong
Prije 3 mjeseci
if it's over a minute It's bad if it's interesting It's allowed
Jossue Portillo
Prije 3 mjeseci
His name is mark
guy sumpthin
Prije 3 mjeseci
Remember it gets warmer close to magma
John Edward
Prije 3 mjeseci
Imagine living your whole life in solitude just to be called a shrimp like thingy by the first thing that sees you.
Stkmup22 Z
Prije 3 mjeseci
Wow, probably an alien.
Ernest Pennysworth
Prije 3 mjeseci
What are all those black vein like things
Savannah -The pebble
Prije 3 mjeseci
the shrimp like thingy: coralline tunnel?
jadon joshua
Prije 3 mjeseci
This is not space guys. There are plenty of shrimp in Antarctica.
Green crewmate
Prije 3 mjeseci
Krill?
Lowkey Hyped
Prije 3 mjeseci
Gawr gura when looking at her chat
Squirrel Killa
Prije 3 mjeseci
Yeah, but the ice doesn't go all the way to the bottom of the sea right there, so that could have came up from under the sheet. Doesn't mean anything
Thomas Arashikage
Prije 3 mjeseci
Did anyone else notice the thing that was peaking at the bottom of the hole
Chris Heckert
Prije 3 mjeseci
1000 Shrimp Like Thingys dislike this video for racial profiling. Also... Give that jellyfish back its arm bruh
Outlaw Garage Kyiv
Prije 3 mjeseci
*Sometimes I find shrimp-like creatures in my garage.*
ade rahmat
Prije 3 mjeseci
I need that shrimp for my aquascape
Fire Snake56
Prije 3 mjeseci
Taste test?
Connie Archer
Prije 3 mjeseci
Scientific Name is Stingy Kilimerius🍤
Layne Bradbury
Prije 3 mjeseci
No one gonna talk about how it is so small and cute but also pole dancing while drunk
Raidz
Prije 3 mjeseci
Meow meow
Annie Ayotte
Prije 3 mjeseci
im just imagining a bunch of scientists huddling around a computer screen absolutely intrigued at this little shrimp thingy
Lauren Salley
Prije 3 mjeseci
HRgreen algorithm 2015: not yet 2016: still not yet 2017: not quite yet 2018: hang on a while longer 2019: almost 2020: ehhh nope 2021: NOW NOW FIRE NOW
Ted Bundy
Prije 3 mjeseci
You’re welcome.
Private_Ryan1
Prije 3 mjeseci
it's proper name is John
The True Watch inside now
Prije 3 mjeseci
The shrimp 🦐 was practicing Pole dance 😬
Slap-moore Cheeks
Prije 3 mjeseci
Did the cook it up with soy sauce and chilli powder??
Keedo
Prije 3 mjeseci
Fun fact: Somebody is gonna say something about HRgreen’s recommendations