{"id":215367,"date":"2025-06-04T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-make-jaw-dropping-find-after-drilling-more-than-1500-feet-into-antarctic-ice-we-even-discovered-a-school-of-lobster-like-creatures"},"modified":"2025-06-04T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T18:15:48","slug":"scientists-make-jaw-dropping-find-after-drilling-more-than-1500-feet-into-antarctic-ice-we-even-discovered-a-school-of-lobster-like-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-make-jaw-dropping-find-after-drilling-more-than-1500-feet-into-antarctic-ice-we-even-discovered-a-school-of-lobster-like-creatures","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make jaw-dropping find after drilling more than 1,500 feet into Antarctic ice: \u2018We even discovered a school of lobster-like creatures\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fq5bJSKIOIw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-025-01687-3\" target=\"_blank\">recent expedition<\/a>, researchers drilled more than 1,600 feet into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/outdoors\/ross-ice-shelf-antarctica-slips-daily-study\/\" target=\"_blank\">West Antarctic Ice Sheet<\/a> and discovered a subglacial river flowing beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/hidden-rivers-accelerate-the-melting-of-antarcticas-ice-sheets\/\" target=\"_blank\">per<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/Earth.com\">Earth.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The river, about as tall as a 30-story building and as wide as a city block, is a blend of freshwater and seawater, slowly making its way toward the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe struck water at the end of the borehole and with the help of our camera, we even discovered a school of lobster-like creatures \u2014 400 kilometers from the open ocean,\u201d expedition leader Huw Horgan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/hidden-rivers-accelerate-the-melting-of-antarcticas-ice-sheets\/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20struck%20water%20at%20the%20end%20of%20the%20borehole%20and%20with%20the%20help%20of%20our%20camera%2C%20we%20even%20discovered%20a%20school%20of%20lobster%2Dlike%20creatures%20%E2%80%93%20400%20kilometers%20from%20the%20open%20ocean%2C%E2%80%9D%20said%20Horgan.\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent expedition, researchers drilled more than 1,600 feet into the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and discovered a subglacial river flowing beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, per Earth.com. The river, about as tall as a 30-story building and as wide as a city block, is a blend of freshwater and seawater, slowly making its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}