Here we will let You know the Top 5 terrifying recent discoveries made in Antarctica. Let us have a look.
1.A GROWING VOID
Imagine an Ice-cave two-thirds the length of Manhattan and nearly a thousand feet tall that is exactly what's going on under the Thwaites glacier in West Antarctica. The gap between the glacier and the bedrock below was only discovered by NASA scientists who say that most of the void was formed from ice melting over the last couple of years; using an ice-burrowing satellite-based radar, they discovered a void that once held 15 billion tons of ice in a report recorded in the journal science advances the gap is believed to be contributing to the ice moving and melting.
2.BACTERIA LURKING IN THE ICE.
Antarctica doesn't house many other forms of life? Well, maybe that isn't strictly true. Bacteria are thriving under half a mile of ice, just a few hundred miles from the south pole. Researchers led by the ecologist, John Priscu at the University of Montana, drilled into lake mercer beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet and found that it was full of bacterial life; in fact, they measured ten thousand bacterial cells per milliliter of lake water researchers said that these bacteria could provide a clue to the kinds of life that may be living on other planets like Mars and Neptune recently phosphine gas found above venus had made experts believe there's a possibility that bacterial life forms are living on the planet.
3.LOCH NESS MONSTER'S FIRST HOME?
Ancient Antarctica was home to the world's heaviest prehistoric sea creature called Plesiour Paleontologists discovered the long neck sea creature on Antarctica's Seymour Island in 1989. Still, they weren't able to finish excavating the enormous fossil until 2017; last year, after examining the specimen thoroughly, researchers shared their findings in life the Antarctica Loch Ness monster would have been 36 feet long and weighed a hefty 15 tons the creature lived only a few tens of thousands of years before their extinction 66 million years ago when an asteroid collided with earth and wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs.
4.SEALS WITH SUPERPOWERS.
In 2014 the national science foundation announced that scientists discovered that Vettel seals might have developed a sixth sense while spending many years evolving in the harsh continent. The study says that the Vettel seals have adapted biologically to allow them to dive hundreds of meters beneath the water while hunting. They have discovered ways to track air pockets to stay under the ice for longer by using the earth's magnetic field as a natural GPS to navigate them back to the places they found earlier.
5.LAVA LAKE
This is the new and unbelievable thing discovered in Antarctica all the time. Taking Saunders island as an example, where a volcanic eruption has located in the south sandwich islands, the icy crag of Mount Michael, the island's active volcanic summit, holds one of the only eight lava lakes found in the entire world. Scientists discover the crater lake by studying thermal images sent back by the satellites; unlike most exposed lava on the earth's surface, the lake remains molten and extremely volatile. The temperature in the lake can reach between 1800 and 2300 degrees Fahrenheit.
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