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The Pandora Below

By The Daily Dish
Mar 16 2010, 10:32 AM ET

Scientists have discovered a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish in a place thought uninhabitable:

The video is likely to inspire experts to rethink what they know about life in harsh environments. And it has scientists musing that if shrimp-like creatures can frolic below 600 feet of Antarctic ice in subfreezing dark water, what about other hostile places? What about Europa, a frozen moon of Jupiter?



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