They found something ALIVE near Antarctica’s ice wall, and its arrival defies every expectation of what can survive in that frozen void. Scientists initially believed the discovery was frozen debris, until movement was detected deep within the ice.
About 310 million years ago, the area that is now Illinois was covered by shallow coastal waters and muddy shores. Sediment from rivers often buried marine creatures, and in some cases trapped them in iron-rich nodules before they could decay. That is how soft-bodied animals, which usually do not leave fossils, were preserved in detail at a site known as Mazon Creek.Every known fossil of the Tully…