Top 10 Mysterious Things Found Frozen In Ice Antarctica

Top 10 Mysterious Things Found Frozen In Ice Antarctica

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Incredible Recent Discoveries in Antarctica!
Antarctica is one of the least explored regions in the world, but it’s not because we’re not trying. The
harsh, freezing conditions make any exploration quite difficult. That’s why it’s only recently that the
frozen continent has revealed some of its secrets. Number one is quite the amazing discovery so make
sure you stay tuned for that as we give you just some of the most incredible recent discoveries in
Antarctica.

A Giant Ice Cave
Imagine a giant cave under the ice around two thirds the size of Manhattan and nearly a thousand feet
tall. Hard to believe that such a thing exists? Well it does, and it’s growing larger and more menacing
every day.
This giant void is hiding under the Antarctic ice at the bottom of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica
was just recently discovered using satellite images of the area. Scientists thought there might be some
gaps between Thwaites Glacier and the bedrock below it, where ocean water could flow in and melt the
icy glacier above it. But even they found the immensity and speed of the void's growth surprising.
For starters, the void is large enough to have once held 15 billion tons of ice, but, according to NASA
scientists, much of that ice has melted during the past three years. Thwaites Glacier is about the size of
Florida and currently responsible for roughly 4 percent of global sea rise. If the entire glacier melted, the
resulting water could raise world ocean levels by more than 2 feet.

Unexpected Residents
Antarctica would be the last place you’d expect to find dinosaur fossils. But believe it or not, dinosaurs
did really live there for a time. Long ago, Antarctica was a much warmer place, home to dinosaurs and
lush plant life. Even before the dinosaurs roamed, an iguana-like Triassic reptile called the Antarctica
home.
Scientists announced the discovery of the reptile, dubbed Antarctanax shackletoni, just last year. The
250 million-year-old creature was an archosaur, a precursor to the lineage that would branch into
dinosaurs, pterosaurs and crocodilians. This animal probably grew to 4 to 5 feet long, and scuttled
around what was then the Antarctic forest floor.
Not only that, Antarctica was also home to the world's heaviest elasmosaurid, a plesiosaur of the genus
Aristonectes. Paleontologists discovered the long-necked sea creature on Antarctica's Seymour Island in
1989, but they weren't able to finish excavating the enormous fossil until 2017. They ultimately pulled
1,760 pounds of fossilized bone off the island.
While it was alive, the Antarctic Loch Ness monster would have been 36 feet long and weighed in at a
hefty 15 tons. The creature lived only a few tens of thousands of years before the Cretaceous-Paleogene
extinction 66 million years ago, when an asteroid collided with Earth and wiped out the non-avian
dinosaurs.

A Rare Lava Lake
Antarctica seems to be a weird place to find a lake full of lava, but that is what researchers actually
found in the icy South Sandwich Islands in the Antarctic Ocean. The lake is anywhere in between 300 to
700 feet across and temperature of the lava could be more than 1,000 degrees Celsius.
Researchers actually found this fiery lake quite a few years ago in an active volcano, but was only
recently able to confirm its existence thanks to higher quality satellite photos.
Lava lakes are actually a rare occurrence and only seven other such lakes are known to exist in the
world. they can be found in volcanoes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Vanuatu, Hawaii
and Nicaragua.

Singing Ice
Researchers on Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf have recorded the slow seismic hum generated by wind forces
whipping across the ice sheet's frozen landscape. The scientists liken it to 'singing', but to our ears the
creepy dirge of Antarctic ice shelf vibrations sounds more like the sinister score of a horror movie.
The frequency detected is far too low for the human ear to hear naturally, but when it's sped up some
1,200 times, what emerges is an eerie soundtrack of restlessness hidden within the bleak polar isolation.
The sound has been likened to the sounds of a flute, but go and have a listen for yourselves and tell us
what you think.

The researchers actually came across this seismic hum by accident while researching a totally different
thing. As the world keeps getting catastrophically hotter, Antarctic ice shelves are beginning to
dramatically collapse and break apart.