Scientists found a miracle distant relative to shrimp 600 feet below thick Antarctic ice blocks. by Milota Sidorova

Among some of general truths about this planet is the one that man doesn't know about 90 percent of planetary plant and animal species. Each day, scientists discover a new living creature, proving life is possible even on the most impossible corners of the Earth. Theories say most of undiscovered flora and fauna is located within seas and oceans, especially Antarctica region. Thousands of thousands years ago it was a rich continent with tropical climate. The proofs of its diversity remains in huge slopes and layers of fossils, conserved in ice. But what seemed to be only a black hole full of microorganisms and plankton has given another proof of human darkness of deep under! water ecosystems. American NASA team was visited by 3-inch-long, orange critter 600 feet under Antarctic ice sheet.Scientists originally considered this area as really empty space invaded with the most primitive forms of life. Lyssianasid amphipod a distant relative to shrimp broke that theory. It was able to produce existing body, find food and reproduce in more than a hostile environment – to the bone freezing water and no sunlight. We all know about fish that look like monsters from our worse nightmares. We know they live deep underwater. This environment was different because of thick layer of airtight ice blocks. Except of Lyssianasid amphipod, scientists were able to pull up a tentacle from the water. According assumptions it should came from a foot-long jellyfish. The new discovery only supported the question of extraterrestrial forms of life in space. And since the water was found on the dark side of the Moon, it could contain remains of another life forms.The! world seems to be borderless and the life always chooses its ! most eff ective form.

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