{"id":216043,"date":"2025-06-16T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/thriving-ecosystem-of-deep-sea-creatures-discovered-after-iceberg-detached-serendipitously-from-antarctica"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:28:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:28:38","slug":"thriving-ecosystem-of-deep-sea-creatures-discovered-after-iceberg-detached-serendipitously-from-antarctica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/thriving-ecosystem-of-deep-sea-creatures-discovered-after-iceberg-detached-serendipitously-from-antarctica","title":{"rendered":"Thriving Ecosystem of Deep-Sea Creatures Discovered After Iceberg Detached Serendipitously from Antarctica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thriving-ecosystem-of-deep-sea-creatures-discovered-after-iceberg-detached-serendipitously-from-antarctica2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a Chicago-sized iceberg broke off from Antarctica, a research vessel changed plans and went to explore an underwater world never seen before by humans.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute\u2019s <em>Falkor (too), <\/em>\u201cseized upon the moment\u201d that was presented to them, and in doing so produced the first oceanographical, biological, and geological study of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Located in the Bellingshausen Sea, the King George VI ice shelf, one of the massive, mostly seaborne glaciers that sit attached to the continent of Antarctica, lost a chunk of ice the size of the greater Chicago area, or around 209 square miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a Chicago-sized iceberg broke off from Antarctica, a research vessel changed plans and went to explore an underwater world never seen before by humans. Researchers and crewmembers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute\u2019s Falkor (too), \u201cseized upon the moment\u201d that was presented to them, and in doing so produced the first oceanographical, biological, and geological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216043","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=216043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}