An amazing discovery in Antarctica

"Maybe there are things living in these caves that we know nothing about".   Unknown DNA sequences have been discovered in caverns in Antarctica.

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00:00Antarctica is a freezing cold place, it's covered in snow and ice, but around volcanoes

00:14in Antarctica the steam melts the ice and in fact the steam can create amazing cave

00:19systems beneath the glaciers.

00:38Our study gives us a really exciting, tantalizing glimpse of the sorts of plants and animals

00:43that might live beneath the ice in Antarctica.

00:46Some of the DNA evidence that we found suggests that maybe there are things living in these

00:50caves that we know nothing about, there could even be new species.

01:03The next step is to go and have a really good look and see whether we can find communities

01:09beneath the ice in Antarctica.