Sea anemones live under Antarctic ice

An anemone species was found under the Antarctic thick ice, and became the first marine creature to be discovered to live on ice.

Experts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Ohio State University (USA) used a camera mounted on a remote controlled drill head to explore beneath the Ross ice shelf (Antarctica), and unexpectedly discovered plus White anemone is flourishing here.

Anemone community under the Ross ice shelf - (Photo: PLoS ONE)

Scientists cannot explain how the anemone, whose scientific name is Edwardsiella andrillae , can survive in ice growing conditions, leaving only tentacles in the water.

'I never expected to think they could live by plugging in the tape, because their structure doesn't show anything unusual' , according to NewScientist.com, quoted by State University expert Marymegan Daly. Ohio.

Some sea anemones use tentacles to cut ice out of the surface, and so experts believe they can possess special chemicals to break ice.

It is still unclear how the anemones can survive without being frozen into ice, and their reproduction process is still a secret, according to the PLoS ONE report.