Scientists find shrimp-like creature under Antarctic ice sheet

(15 Mar 2010) Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf, Antarctica - December 2009 1. Shrimp-like creature swimming around camera cable inside bore hole Greenbelt, Maryland, USA - 12 March 2010 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Bindschadler, NASA Ice Scientist: ( AUDIO OVERLAID OVER PREVIOUS SHOT ) “What the video shows is the view of the bottom of a bore hole through about a 200 metre thick ice shelf close to McMurdo Station. And so while we were looking at the video examining the hole, lo and behold this marine organism came swimming by. I called it a shrimp-like thingy, because I don’’t know anything about marine biology. But it was just fascinating to see this amphipod, is what it’’s actually, its proper name is, swimming around and being very curious, looking at the cable and we were all huddled around the monitor just fascinated with what we were seeing at the bottom of our hole. Well, when I showed this to a marine biologist she was quite surprised because we are a long wa