In Antarctic waters once covered by massive sheet of ice, scientists find thriving ecosystem

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Back in January, a massive chunk of ice the size of Chicago broke off from an ice sheet on Antarctica’s coast. Exploring the waters this oversized block of ice once covered, scientists found — to their surprise — an abundance of life that was living in the waters that were once beneath that ice. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks to Patricia Esquete who was with the first team of researchers to study this area of the seafloor. Esquete is a deep sea ecologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal.

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